Battle of Hayes Pond

Date: January 18, 1958 • Location: Maxton, United States

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1958.

Members of the Lumbee tribe arrived to protest at a Ku Klux Klan rally near Maxton, North Carolina, which turned into an armed confrontation between the two groups (pictured).

The Lumbee, also known as People of the Dark Water, are a mixed-race people group of the Americas, some of whom comprise the federally recognized Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Primarily located in Robeson County, North Carolina, the Lumbee claim to be descended from numerous Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands who once inhabited the region and have been shown to have connections with other racial isolate groups, such as the Melungeons and Louisiana Redbones.