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Title	Anonymous Communist Tries To Explain Dedication
Date	1979-11-05
Creator	Hiles, Bob
Contributors	Ragsdale, Rebecca
Biographical/historical note	Bob Hiles was a Greensboro Daily News 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	In this November 5, 1979, article from the Greensboro Daily News, staff writers Bob Hiles and Rebecca Ragsdale interview an unidentified member of the Communist Workers Party (CWP) who expresses his support for the goals of the party and states that people will be killed in the name of the revolution. He also expresses his belief that despite the failure of other such groups, the CWP will succeed, and he compares the group to the Black Panthers. The CPW (then Workers Viewpoint Organization) had sponsored a the Death to the Klan march on November 3, 1979 at which five CWP members killed.
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.1245
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	884367646

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