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He shot Communists in Vietnam — why not in Greensboro? – NC Miscellany [1]
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Date: 2018-05-11
“[‘Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America’] sprang from [Kathleen] Belew’s research on a 1979 anti-Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, in which five members of the Communist Workers Party were murdered. A comment by one of the killers, who was among a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis, stuck with her: ‘I shot communists in Vietnam. Why wouldn’t I do that here?’
” ‘I couldn’t stop thinking about that,’ Belew said. ‘It collapsed peace time and war time, front lines and home fronts, and different kinds of enemies. I looked through the archive generated by this movement, and that was pervasive throughout the materials. The Vietnam War was a major force in uniting this social movement.’ ”
— From “In new book, UChicago historian examines rise of white power movement” at History News Network (May 2)
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