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Why was this city picked for battleground?

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Title	Why was this city picked for battleground?
Date	1979-11-05
Description	This November 5, 1979, article by Jim Schlosser of the Greensboro Record discusses community reaction and raises the question of why Greensboro became the site of the shooting of five members of the Communist Workers Party (CWP) at an anti-Klan rally on November 3, 1979. Most community and civil rights leaders, including local NAACP president George Simkins, stated that the incident was "isolated" and should not lead outsiders to draw "unfair conclusions" about Greensboro. Simkins did, however, criticize the police response. The article also includes background material on the CWP and its relationship to other factions within the Communist party as well as some information on recent KKK activity. Other leaders interviewed include Mayor Jim Melvin, U.S. Attorney H.M. Michaux, UNCG professor Alan Trelease, North Carolina Civil Liberties Union director George Gardner, and an unidentified FBI agent in Charlotte.
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.)
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
Collection home page	http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/CivilRights
Preferred citation	[Identification of item], [Identification of collection], Greensboro History Museum, Greensboro, NC, USA.
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	9.069.1249
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	884367585

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