How the Battle of Hayes Pond Vanquished the KKK From Robeson County | Eastern NC Now

    In these tumultuous times perhaps it is well that we realize that "this too shall pass." In the mid 1950's you would have been treated to high skepticism had you tried to convince many in Robeson County that the day would come when the Ku Klus Klan was no more. And a chief cause of that banishment resulted from the "Battle of Hayes Pond" on the night of January 18, 1958. The story was re-told recently by Ilena Peng in getpocket.com

• Two crosses burned in Robeson County, North Carolina, on January 13, 1958. One was outside the home of a Native American woman who was dating a white man, the other outside the home of a Native family who had moved into one of Lumberton's all-white neighborhoods. The blazing signs were clearly the work of Klansmen - not that the Ku Klux Klan's presence in the county had ever been subtle. Caravans of Klansmen had been driving around the segregated county (where the local population included blacks, whites and Native Americans) every Saturday night, terrorizing the Lumbee Indians.

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