- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- [Communist Workers Party press release]
- Creator:
- Communist Workers Party U.S.A.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Yuen, Marion
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : Communist Workers Party U.S.A.
- Date of Original:
- 1980-02-04
- Subject:
- Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
Massacres--North Carolina--Greensboro - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- reports
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This February 4, 1980 press release, issued by the Communist Workers Party USA, describes a February 2, 1980, demonstration held in Greensboro. The demonstration, which coincided with the twentieth anniversary of the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins, protested Ku Klux Klan activity, particularly the November 3, 1979, Death to the Klan march where five protestors were killed. The press release is critical of government agencies for their lack of support for the demonstration, and of civil rights leaders, including Joseph Lowery of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) for their "passive, non-violent philopsphy" and their calls to disarm the demonstration. Andrew Young's February 1, 1980, speech at North Carolina A&T State University was similarly criticized.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/312
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
- Extent:
- 8.5" x 14"
- Original Collection:
- http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/boyd/
RL.00134 Blanche M. Boyd Papers
CRG - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Rights:
-
