- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Elizabeth Wheaton
- Creator:
- Wheaton, Elizabeth
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1988-03-24
- Subject:
- Women social reformers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Women authors--North Carolina--Greensboro
American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina
Race relations
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Gunfights--North Carolina--Greensboro
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Communist Workers Party (U.S.)
National Socialist Party of America
Riots--North Carolina--Greensboro
Police--North Carolina--Greensboro
Trials--North Carolina--Greensboro - People:
- Wheaton, Elizabeth
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Oral history in which author Elizabeth Wheaton discusses the November 3, 1979 shootout between the Ku Klux Klan and the Communist Workers Party, including her analysis of why the shootings took place, the reactions of the police department and other parties involved, and the outcomes of the resulting trials. She also discusses civil rights and race relations in Greensboro after the shootings occurred.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/oh%3A139
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Contributing Institution:
- Greensboro Public Library (Greensboro, N.C.)
- Rights:
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