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Title	Carter orders Klan probe
Date	1979-11-06
Creator	Schlosser, Jim
Biographical/historical note	Jim Schlosser was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, on January 5, 1943. He graduated from Page High School in 1961 and later attended Guilford College, earning a degree in English in 1965. After a brief stint in University of North Carolina’s School of Journalism, he enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve, serving six months of active duty. Upon his return to Greensboro in 1967, he was hired by the Greensboro Record, for whom he covered feature stories regarding political rallies and local racial unrest. Schlosser has received several journalism awards and other honors, including the first Unsung Hero Award presented by the Joseph M. Bryan Foundation in 2004, and the Alumni Excellence Award from Guilford College in 1997.
Subject headings	Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
Topics	Greensboro Massacre, 1979
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	This November 6, 1979, article by Jim Schlosser of the Greensboro Record reports that President Jimmy Carter had ordered a federal investigation into rising Ku Klux Klan (KKK) activity in light of the Communist Workers Party (CWP) murders at a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro on November 3, 1979. The article goes on to mention the possibility of a federal investigation specifically focusing on the Greensboro incident and also includes updated information on the investigation by the Greensboro Police Department. In addition, it is reported that residents of the city's public housing projects had voted to denounce the shootings and to demand that future demonstrations be held away from their homes.
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.1256
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	884367559

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