Letter to Greensboro Justice Fund donors

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This undated fundraising letter from the Greensboro Justice Fund's Executive Director Neil S. Prose contains news of the first murder trial of Ku Klux Klan members and Nazis for the November 3, 1979 shootings of five members of the Communist Workers Party (CWP). The letter requests financial support for legal assistance and bail for protesters at the trial and at city council meetings. The letters seems to date from the summer of 1980.

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Title: Letter to Greensboro Justice Fund donors
Who's responsible?: Prose, Neil S. M.D.
Greensboro Justice Fund (Creator)
Additional historical information: The Greensboro Justice Fund was organized in 1980, in response to the deaths of five Communist Workers Party members at the Death to the Klan march on November 3, 1979, colloquially known as the Greensboro Massacre. In addition to supporting the families of the five that were killed that day and litigation of the perpetrators in the 1980s, the GJF currently supports other grassroots groups and activists working for civil rights, social change, and radical democracy in the South. To learn more, please visit http://www.gjf.org
Original creation or publication date: 1980
Place: Greensboro (N.C.)
Decade: 1980-1989
Type of item: text
Original format: correspondence
Subject headings: Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
Topics: North Carolina
African-American History
Events
Additional tags: Greensboro Massacre, 1979
Copyright information: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
Contributing Institution: Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
Collection: Sydney Nathans Papers
Civil Rights Greensboro
Funding source: LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html
Contributor's identifier: Duke_UA.29.02.0130.1180
Gateway identifier: duke:211

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