The Battle of Hayes Pond was an armed confrontation between the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the Lumbee Indians at a Klan rally near Maxton, North Carolina, on the night of January 18, 1958. Grand Dragon James W. 'Catfish' Cole was the organizer of the Klan rally. Sanford Locklear, Simeon Oxendine and Neill […]
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