- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Why was this city picked for battleground?
- Creator:
- Schlosser, Jim
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : Greensboro Daily News
- Date of Original:
- 1979-11-05
- Subject:
- Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
Massacres--North Carolina--Greensboro - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- clippings (information artifacts)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This November 5, 1979, article by Jim Schlosser of the Greensboro Record discusses community reaction and raises the question of why Greensboro became the site of the shooting of five members of the Communist Workers Party (CWP) at an anti-Klan rally on November 3, 1979. Most community and civil rights leaders, including local NAACP president George Simkins, stated that the incident was "isolated" and should not lead outsiders to draw "unfair conclusions" about Greensboro. Simkins did, however, criticize the police response. The article also includes background material on the CWP and its relationship to other factions within the Communist party as well as some information on recent KKK activity. Other leaders interviewed include Mayor Jim Melvin, U.S. Attorney H.M. Michaux, UNCG professor Alan Trelease, North Carolina Civil Liberties Union director George Gardner, and an unidentified FBI agent in Charlotte.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/85
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
- Original Collection:
- CRG
Misc. Coll. -- James A. Armfield Papers - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Rights:
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