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Greensboro massacre

1979 massacre in North Carolina

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

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).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Greensboro massacre” is 1979 massacre in North Carolina. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Greensboro, massacre and North, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Greensboro, massacre and North is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “1979 massacre in North Carolina” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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This entry incorporates text from “Greensboro massacre” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.