Button, anti-KKK, 1980
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Title |
Button, anti-KKK, 1980 |
Description |
Button protesting a Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro. The button has a yellow background and red text reading: "Feb. 2, 1980 / Greensboro, N.C. / STOP / the / KKK!" Dimensions: 54 mm in diameter. |
Date |
1980 |
Subject (tgm) |
Buttons (Information artifacts) Protest movements Protests White supremacy movements |
Subject Name |
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) |
Subject Geographic |
Greensboro (N.C.) |
Usage Statement |
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Notes |
The rally was most likely in response to the November 3, 1979 "Death to the Klan" march in Greensboro, North Carolina, led by members of the Communist Workers Party, who were trying to organize African-American industrial workers. Five marchers were shot and killed, and ten others were wounded by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party. Two criminal trials of Klansmen and Nazi Party members each resulted in their acquittal by all-white juries. The event came to be known as the Greensboro Massacre. Reverend Ben Chavis, co-chairman of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, spoke at the February 2, 1980 commemoration of the killings. |
Form |
Buttons (Information artifacts) |
Digital Collection |
Lew Powell |
Repository |
North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Host |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Citation |
North Carolina Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
filename |
nccg_ck_1287-509.tif |
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