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\ 76th Year, No. 129
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Tuesday, April 7, 1981
U.S. agency stalls Greensboro investigation
First of two stories
By Jon Rosenblum
On a balmy afternoon less
than five months ago, students
and activists •. from North
Carolina Central University
poured into the Durham streets
to express outrage at the
"Greensboro decisions" — six
Ku Klux Klan and Na/.i
members found innocent of
charges they murdered five
members of the Communist
Workers Party at an anti-Klan
rally Nov. 3, 1979.
At Duke, students held a
silent vigil and delivered
speeches in a campus-wide
show of concern. Main quad
resounded with inspired and.
angry voices.
At Duke, at NCCU, at the
University of North Carolina-
Chapel Hill, at N.C. A&T, the
protestors cried out about what
had not happened wilh the Nov.
17 decision by an all-white jury
of six men and six women:
justice had not been served. And
they agreed what needed to be
done: demand a U.S. Justice
Department investigation.
Since the protests calling for
an investigation, the most
conspicuous government
reaction has been silence. The
Justice Department still is
debating whether to file federal
charges against the Klansmen,
Nazis and officials the CWP
claims conspired in the
shootings.
The only continuing investigation of what happened Nov. 3,
1979, is in Greensboro where
attorneys for the Greensboro
-Justice Fund have pressed
ahead with a $37 million suit
against 88 organizations and
individuals they say helped
bring on the Greensboro
shootings.
"We're in the process of doing
an investigation into whether
or not the federal government
has jurisdiction," Mickey
Michaux, U.S. attorney for the
middle district of North
Carolina, said in an interview
Wednesday. Michaux and
officials from the civil rights
division of the Justice
Department will make the final
decision whether or not to file
federal charges.
In order to make that
decision, Michaux said he has
been reviewing "number one,
what the courts have decided [in
the past] and number two, the
best route to take.
"This is not a clear-cut civil
rights situation. This is two
groups of people who fought
each other. There weren't any
racial overtones."
See Officials on page 4
MOURNING INJUSTICE...a number of demonstrations
marked the announcement of the Greensboro verdict.
TZOajH
P#J£
jy-o^i
y
\ 76th Year, No. 129
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Tuesday, April 7, 1981
U.S. agency stalls Greensboro investigation
First of two stories
By Jon Rosenblum
On a balmy afternoon less
than five months ago, students
and activists •. from North
Carolina Central University
poured into the Durham streets
to express outrage at the
"Greensboro decisions" — six
Ku Klux Klan and Na/.i
members found innocent of
charges they murdered five
members of the Communist
Workers Party at an anti-Klan
rally Nov. 3, 1979.
At Duke, students held a
silent vigil and delivered
speeches in a campus-wide
show of concern. Main quad
resounded with inspired and.
angry voices.
At Duke, at NCCU, at the
University of North Carolina-
Chapel Hill, at N.C. A&T, the
protestors cried out about what
had not happened wilh the Nov.
17 decision by an all-white jury
of six men and six women:
justice had not been served. And
they agreed what needed to be
done: demand a U.S. Justice
Department investigation.
Since the protests calling for
an investigation, the most
conspicuous government
reaction has been silence. The
Justice Department still is
debating whether to file federal
charges against the Klansmen,
Nazis and officials the CWP
claims conspired in the
shootings.
The only continuing investigation of what happened Nov. 3,
1979, is in Greensboro where
attorneys for the Greensboro
-Justice Fund have pressed
ahead with a $37 million suit
against 88 organizations and
individuals they say helped
bring on the Greensboro
shootings.
"We're in the process of doing
an investigation into whether
or not the federal government
has jurisdiction," Mickey
Michaux, U.S. attorney for the
middle district of North
Carolina, said in an interview
Wednesday. Michaux and
officials from the civil rights
division of the Justice
Department will make the final
decision whether or not to file
federal charges.
In order to make that
decision, Michaux said he has
been reviewing "number one,
what the courts have decided [in
the past] and number two, the
best route to take.
"This is not a clear-cut civil
rights situation. This is two
groups of people who fought
each other. There weren't any
racial overtones."
See Officials on page 4
MOURNING INJUSTICE...a number of demonstrations
marked the announcement of the Greensboro verdict.
