GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS April 13, 1982 P. B4
Monitor: Klan-Nazi
Verdicts Aid Racists
The not-guilty verdicts in the 1980 Greensboro Klan-
Nazi murder trial "have served as a green light to racists
around the country," the director of a national Ku Klux Klan-
monitoring organization said Monday.
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Center's KLANWATCH pxakct, said the six former defendants are now being hailed as "heroes" and "patriots" by
racist organizations around the country.
Williams, of Montgomery, Ala., said his organization's
estimates show Klan activity across the country "has been
greater in the last three years than at any time since the
mid-1960s."
Williams' organization is one of six labor, civil rights and
religious groups whose representatives are visiting Greensboro this week as "fact-finders" to learn more about the Nov.
3, 1979, shooting deaths of five Communist demonstrators
during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro.
The representatives spoke Monday during a press conference called by the Greensboro Justice Fund, which provides legal services to victims of the shootings, their
associates, and survivors of the deceased.
Mac Givgn of the Philadelphia Yearly Mgeting^ an organization of Quakers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, said "there is a general agreement among (Quakers)
that this is a major national issue" that should be watched
closely.
The representatives said they would be monitoring the
results of a federal grand jury that has been meeting in Winston-Salem to investigate possible federal charges stemming
from the shootings.
Martha Nathan, a Justice Fund director, read a statement from U.S. Rep. Parren J. Mitchell^ D-Md., supporting
the grand jury's irrvesIigaTtoTT.
Other out-of-town visitors who spoke Monday were representatives of a Washington local of the American_F£flerar
tion of Government. Employees, the Southern~Organizirig
Committee. People United Against Government Repression.
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