John Wicker was a Greensboro Record staff writer who covered the Novemeber 3, 1979 Death to the Klan march that took place in Greensboro and left five of the protesters dead.
Subject headings
Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
Topics
Greensboro Massacre, 1979
Place
Greensboro (N.C.)
Description
This November 5, 1979, article by Jim Wicker of the Greensboro Record reports on the arraignment of fourteen members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and Nazi party on murder charges stemming from the shootings of five members of the Communist Workers Party (CWP) at a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro on November 3, 1979. Defendants were Michael Euguene Clinton, Rayford Milano Caudle, Harold Dean Flowers, Billy Joe Franklin, Terry Wayne Hartsoe, Lawrence Gene Morgan, David Wayne Matthews, Lee Joseph McClain, Lisford Carl Napier, Sr., Coleman Blair Pridmore, Jerry Paul Smith, Roy Clinton Toney, and Roland Wayne Wood. The article also mentions that public defenders had been appointed for several defendants. Two photographs accompany the article.
