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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
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