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Title	Leader Says Leftist Group Very New, Spinoff of WVO
Date	1979-11-05
Creator	Lewis, Greg
Biographical/historical note	Greg Lewis was a staff writer for the Greensboro Daily News in 1979.
Subject headings	Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
Topics	Greensboro Massacre, 1979
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	In this November 5, 1979, article from the Greensboro Daily News, staff writer Greg Lewis reports on the genesis of the Communist Workers Party (CWP) following the November 3, 1979, shootings in Greensboro in which five members of the party were killed at an anti-Klan rally. The CWP, according to leader Nelson Johnson, was a new organization created to replace the Workers Viewpoint Organization, an earlier group. The goal of the group was to "overthrow capitalism, institute a dictatorship of the rule of the proletariat and to build a socialist society." Johnson stated that the group was "not nonviolent" and that it had been "set up." He also stated that this was not a racial incident. The article also features an interview with the father of victim James Waller.
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.1241
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	884367567

Leader Says Leftist Group Very New, Spinoff of WVO

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