What the records say
- When
- 3 Nov 1979
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 5
- Coordinates
- 36.07° N, 79.76° W
- Description
- massacre
Greensboro massacre
1979 massacre in North Carolina
The Greensboro massacre was a deadly confrontation that occurred on November 3, 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina, when members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and National Socialist Party of America (NSPA) shot and killed five demonstrators in a "Death to the Klan" march organized by the Communist Workers Party (CWP).
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- Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Greensboro massacre: In Greensboro, North Carolina, five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot to death and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la ciudad de Greensboro (Carolina del Norte, Estados Unidos), miembros de la secta nazi Ku Klux Klan y del Partido Nazi Estadounidense asesinan a tiros a…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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