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After Violence, Community Leaders Ask For Calm

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Title	After Violence, Community Leaders Ask For Calm
Date	1979-11-04
Creator	Gruson, Lindsey
Biographical/historical note	Lindsey Gruson was a staff writer for the Greensboro Daily News in 1980. Gruson went on to work for the New York Times and to write several books.
Subject headings	Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
Topics	Greensboro Massacre, 1979
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	In this November 4, 1979, article from the Greensboro Daily News, staff writer Linsey Gruson reports on calls for calm by Greensboro leaders following the November 3, 1979, Death to the Klan rally, at which five members if the Communist Workers Party (CWP) were shot to death. Black and white leaders, including Mayor Jim Melvin, Police Chief William Swing, pastors Frank Williams and Otis Hairtson, Councilman Jimmie Barber, and local NAACP president George Simkins joined to urge residents not to become violent. Melvin stated that the incident was unrelated to racial tension in the city and said there would be a full investigation. Williams noted that residents of the area where the shootings took place were angry at the police for not having been at the scene, at the CWP for choosing a heavily populated parade route through a residential area, as well as at the KKK members.
Type	Text
Original format	clippings
Original publisher	Greensboro, N.C. : Greensboro Daily News
Language	en
Contributing institution	Greensboro History Museum
Source collection	Misc. Coll. -- James A. Armfield Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
Object ID	GHM_Misc. Coll.JArmfield.1232
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
Sponsor	LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html
OCLC number	884367540

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