College of Charleston Library Vertical File on the "Greensboro Incident" of 1979, 1979-1980.

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College of Charleston Library Vertical File on the "Greensboro Incident" of 1979, 1979-1980.

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The collection consists of materials gathered by the staff of the Robert Scott Small Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. It includes numerous clippings and pamphlets concerning the "Greensboro Incident" of 1979. The materials describe the murder of 5 members of the Communist Workers Party by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialist Party of America. Most of the materials were published by the Communist Workers Party.

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Communist Workers Party (U.S.)

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