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...field that night, 75 Klansmen, one robed in white sheets, some armed with shotguns, gathered round the public-address system set up by Klan leaders. Above the crowd, hung a single bare electric bulb. Off to one side assembled fascinated observers and newsmen. Across the road stood about 350 young Lumbees...
...Indians hooted a few jeers. The Klan ignored them. Then slowly the Lumbees fanned out and moved across the road. A tall Indian youth walked closer, raised his rifle, calmly drew a bead on the light bulb, and baml-out it went. Suddenly the band galloped toward the huddled Klansmen, yelling old war cries, firing into the dark night and at auto tires. Most of the Klansmen dropped their guns and made for their cars in fright. The Indians kept coming (one proudly wore a traditional feathered headdress marked SOUVENIR OF CHIMNEY ROCK, N.C.), burst upon the public-address system...
MAXTON, N. C., Jan. 19--Sheriff Malcolm McLeod said today he will ask that Klansmen be indicted on charges of inciting a riot after gun-wielding Indians broke up a Klan rally in this Lumbee Indian area last night
...dynamited and destroyed. The main building on an adjoining farm owned by the community was burned to the ground, and later twelve shotgun blasts were fired into the farm, showering some of the Koinonia children with pellets. One Sunday a 78-car motorcade of 153 robed and hooded Klansmen drove into Americus just after church, held a demonstration at the fairgrounds, then disrobed and went out to Koinonia to urge the community to move. Last week Koinonia's president, Virginia-born Norman Long, 32, still a member of the Baptist Church, and Clarence Jordan, 44, were planning a move...
...this year (TIME, May 11), the only one ever given to weekly papers. Last week Editor Cole was praised from another quarter for his journalistic enterprise. In the mail came an unsolicited letter from former Imperial Wizard Thomas L. Hamilton, who was sent to jail, along with 15 other Klansmen, as a result of the weeklies' crusade. Said Hamilton's letter, which Cole put on Page One: "All my friends everywhere should disband the Ku Klux Klan ... I am through with [it] and believe all my former associates will best serve themselves and society as a whole...