- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Statement to the North Carolina Advisory Commission on Civil Rights
- Creator:
- Communist Workers Party U.S.A.
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : Communist Workers Party U.S.A.
- Date of Original:
- 1980-02-26
- 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 26, 1980 statement by the Communist Workers Party (CWP) to the North Carolina Advisory Committee on Civil Rights, frames the November 3, 1979, Greensboro Massacre, in terms of civil rights. The statement outlines the work of the CWP and provides biographical background on the five CWP members who were killed. The statement asserts that racial divisions are promoted to distract workers from the economical issues raised by a capitalist system, and that the government is complicit in this process. The statement includes anecdotes gleaned from police reports and other sources alleging mishandling of the situation by the Greensboro police as well as possible collaboration between law enforcement and the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi party members. The CWP requests that all FBI and other law enforcement files on the incident be made available immediately.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/607
- 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:
-
