Greensboro Civil Rights Fund records, 1971-1987.

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Greensboro Civil Rights Fund records, 1971-1987.

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Material of the Greensboro Civil Rights Fund/Greensboro Justice Fund (GJF) relating to three court cases stemming from the casualties of the 3 November 1979 riot in Greensboro. There are subject files, beginning in 1979, including records of trial defendants, plaintiffs, and witnesses, as well as publications, propaganda, memoranda, reports, and notes from organizations related to the GCRF and the GJF; copies of investigative files, including correspondence, witness interviews, autopsy reports, and lab test reports; copies of official court records, including deposition transcripts, pleading books, transcripts of trial testimony, and discovery material; court exhibit files contain scene evidence collected by the police at the murder scene and copies of investigation reports from the FBI, the BATF, and the Greensboro Police Department; office and organizational files, including correspondence, address lists, memoranda, newsletters, position papers, press releases, research materials, and financial records; pictures mostly related to the 3 November 1979 march and subsequent court proceedings; audiocassettes including interviews with surviving Communist Workers Party (CWP) demonstrators and copies of cassette tapes from the civil trial depositions; copies of videotapes of the actual Klan-Nazi attack and three documentary television shows; clippings related to the 1979 incident; material related to the Workers Viewpoint Organization/Communist Workers Party; writings and reports related to the 1979 incident and race relations in Greensboro, N.C.; and museum items related to the 3 November 1979, anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration, including a bullhorn, banners, and a hanging effigy of a Ku Klux Klan member.

About 93000 items (165.0 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7287116

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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