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Letter to Greensboro Justice Fund donors
Date:
circa 1980
Author:
Greensboro Justice Fund
Biographical/Historical abstract:
The Greensboro Justice Fund was organized in 1980, in response to the Greensboro Massacre of November 3, 1979. It continues to assist organizations working for racial justice in the South.
Additional contributor:
Neil S. Prose
Description:
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.
Subjects:
Format of original:
Correspondence
Collection:
Sydney Nathans Papers
Repository:
Duke University
Item#:
4.67.1180
Rights:
need permission GJF It is responsibility of the user to follow the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). Materials are not to be reproduced in published works without written consent, and any use should credit Civil Rights Greensboro and the appropriate repository.
