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Newsletter,
Vol. 1,No.2
Editor: Ting Yu
Legal Alliance for
Greensboro Justice
A Project of the Greensboro Justice Fund
Dear Friend,
It is almost a year now since members of the.Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party shot and killed
five anti-Klan demonstrators from the Communist Workers Party on the streets of Greensboro,
N.C. This crime, committed in broad daylight in front of TV cameras, shocked the nation and the
world. On Feb. 2, 10,000 people-representing a broad diversity of philosophy and political opinion-marched in Greensboro to express their outrage.
Yet today it seems doubtful that the true story behind those murders will ever come to light,
or that the guilty parties will be punished. Six Klansmen and Nazis have been on trial in Greensboro since June. Many people are predicting that they will be acquitted. Even if some or all of
them are convicted, there is widespread feeling that the sentences will be light and are likely to be
reversed on appeal.
At best, the trial now going on in Greensboro only touches the surface of the crime. Between
35 and 40 men were in the caravan that attacked the November 3 anti-Klan demonstration; only
16 of them were ever arrested, and only six are on trial.
Furthermore, in recent weeks it has been revealed that at "least one agent of the federal government and one representative of the Greensboro police department were involved with the
people who planned and carried out this crime. Bernard Butkovich, an agent of the Treasury
Department's Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Unit, had been sent to North Carolina to infiltrate
the Nazis there and took part in the sessions that planned November 3. Ed Dawson, a Greensboro
paid police informer, was in the lead car of the caravan on November 3. No agency of the government-local, state, or federal -is dealing openly with this evidence of government complicity.
Meantime, avowed Klansmen who shot four Black women in Chattanooga, were freed or
given a token sentence. Murders by police in Miami, Philadelphia, New York-and throughout our
country-indicate growing Klan infiltration of police departments. Incidents of racist terror and
violence are increasing across the country. The U.S. Justice Department is looking the other way
is Blacks, other people of color, the poor, and all those who are resisting oppression are attacked
in Wrightsville, Ga., and elsewhere.
continued on next page
FALL CONFERENCE
THE LEGAL ALLIANCE FOR
GREENSBORO JUSTICE IS SPONSORING TWO CONFERENCES ON OCTOBER
18 AND NOVEMBER 15 WHICH WILL
HIGHLIGHT THE LEGAL WORK DONE
TO EXPOSE THE GOVERNMENT, EMPLOYERS, AND KLAN/NAZIS IN THE
CIVIL RIGHTS SUIT, CRIMINAL DEFENSE OF THE GREENSBORO 6 AND
LABOR CASES. ONE CONFERENCE
WILL BE ON THE WEST COAST AND
THE OTHER WILL BE HELD IN NEW
YORK.
A BROAD RANGE OF SPEAKERS
WILL MAKE PRESENTATIONS AND
WORKSHOPS WILL BE HELD IN THE
AFTERNOON.
ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING
AND ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE
SHOULD CALL THE LEGAL ALLIANCE
FOR GREENSBORO JUSTICE IN NEW
YORK AT (212) 233-8668 OR IN THE
WEST COAST CALL (213) 387-2255.
Object Description
| Title | Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 2, Legal Alliance for Greensboro Justice |
| Date | 1980 |
| Date approximate? | yes |
| Creator | Greensboro Justice Fund |
| Biographical/historical note | The Greensboro Justice Fund was organized in 1980, in response to the deaths of five Communist Workers Party members at the Death to the Klan march on November 3, 1979, colloquially known as the Greensboro Massacre. In addition to supporting the families of the five that were killed that day and litigation of the perpetrators in the 1980s, the GJF currently supports other grassroots groups and activists working for civil rights, social change, and radical democracy in the South. To learn more, please visit http://www.gjf.org |
| Subject headings | Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979 |
| Topics | Greensboro Massacre, 1979 |
| Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
| Description | This undated newsletter, published by the Greensboro Justice Fund in late 1980, discusses recent developments in the trial of Nazis and Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members accused of shooting five Communist Workers Party (CWP) members on November 3, 1979 at a Death to the Klan march in Greensboro. Articles discuss contempt charges filed against CWP protesters who spoke out at the trial, a CWP protest in New York City, the personal statement of a CWP supporter who was arrested at the trial, and the possibility of US Government involvement in the shootings. Included are photographs of Tom Clark being arrested, and Floris Cauce and Marty Nathan, both wives of slain CWP protesters. |
| Type | text |
| Original format | newsletters |
| Original dimensions | 8.5" x 11" |
| Original publisher | Greensboro, N.C. : Greensboro Justice Fund |
| Language | en |
| Contributing institution | Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University |
| Source collection | UA.29.02.0130 Sydney Nathans Papers |
| Finding aid link | http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/uanathans/ |
| 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 | Duke_UA.29.02.0130.1183 |
| 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 | 884367588 |
Page/Item Description
| Title | Page 01 |
| Full text | Newsletter, Vol. 1,No.2 Editor: Ting Yu Legal Alliance for Greensboro Justice A Project of the Greensboro Justice Fund Dear Friend, It is almost a year now since members of the.Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party shot and killed five anti-Klan demonstrators from the Communist Workers Party on the streets of Greensboro, N.C. This crime, committed in broad daylight in front of TV cameras, shocked the nation and the world. On Feb. 2, 10,000 people-representing a broad diversity of philosophy and political opinion-marched in Greensboro to express their outrage. Yet today it seems doubtful that the true story behind those murders will ever come to light, or that the guilty parties will be punished. Six Klansmen and Nazis have been on trial in Greensboro since June. Many people are predicting that they will be acquitted. Even if some or all of them are convicted, there is widespread feeling that the sentences will be light and are likely to be reversed on appeal. At best, the trial now going on in Greensboro only touches the surface of the crime. Between 35 and 40 men were in the caravan that attacked the November 3 anti-Klan demonstration; only 16 of them were ever arrested, and only six are on trial. Furthermore, in recent weeks it has been revealed that at "least one agent of the federal government and one representative of the Greensboro police department were involved with the people who planned and carried out this crime. Bernard Butkovich, an agent of the Treasury Department's Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Unit, had been sent to North Carolina to infiltrate the Nazis there and took part in the sessions that planned November 3. Ed Dawson, a Greensboro paid police informer, was in the lead car of the caravan on November 3. No agency of the government-local, state, or federal -is dealing openly with this evidence of government complicity. Meantime, avowed Klansmen who shot four Black women in Chattanooga, were freed or given a token sentence. Murders by police in Miami, Philadelphia, New York-and throughout our country-indicate growing Klan infiltration of police departments. Incidents of racist terror and violence are increasing across the country. The U.S. Justice Department is looking the other way is Blacks, other people of color, the poor, and all those who are resisting oppression are attacked in Wrightsville, Ga., and elsewhere. continued on next page FALL CONFERENCE THE LEGAL ALLIANCE FOR GREENSBORO JUSTICE IS SPONSORING TWO CONFERENCES ON OCTOBER 18 AND NOVEMBER 15 WHICH WILL HIGHLIGHT THE LEGAL WORK DONE TO EXPOSE THE GOVERNMENT, EMPLOYERS, AND KLAN/NAZIS IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS SUIT, CRIMINAL DEFENSE OF THE GREENSBORO 6 AND LABOR CASES. ONE CONFERENCE WILL BE ON THE WEST COAST AND THE OTHER WILL BE HELD IN NEW YORK. A BROAD RANGE OF SPEAKERS WILL MAKE PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS WILL BE HELD IN THE AFTERNOON. ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING AND ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE SHOULD CALL THE LEGAL ALLIANCE FOR GREENSBORO JUSTICE IN NEW YORK AT (212) 233-8668 OR IN THE WEST COAST CALL (213) 387-2255. |
