- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- [Letter from Barry Fagen to Harper's magazine]
- Creator:
- Fagen, Barry
- Contributor to Resource:
- Watson, Robert W.
- Date of Original:
- 1980-03-23
- Subject:
- Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
Massacres--North Carolina--Greensboro - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- correspondence
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Two page letter from Barry Fagen to the editors of Harper's magazine regarding Robert Watson's essay "Media Martyrdom", published in the March 1980 issue, about the murder of five Communist Workers Party members at the Death to the Klan rally, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Fagen criticizes Watson for his portrayal of the event at "gang warfare." He argues that the event was more politically charged than Watson admitted, and that says that he reduced the victims to cliches by leaving out their personal histories and reasons for joining the CWP.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/2849
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
- Extent:
- 11" x 8.5"
- Original Collection:
- http://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=350
The Robert Watson Papers, from which this item was taken, have been digitized and are available online at http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/robertwatsonpapers/collection/MSS
MSS084 Robert W. Watson Papers, 1948-1980
CRG - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Rights:
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