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Battle of Hayes Pond and the KKK in Robeson County
Collection
Identifier: BOHP
Scope and Contents
Materials related to The Battle of Hayes Pond, also known as the Battle of Maxton Field or the Maxton Riot, which was an armed confrontation between members of a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) organization and Lumbee Indians at a Klan rally near Maxton, North Carolina, on the night of January 18, 1958. The clash resulted in the disruption of the rally and a significant amount of media coverage praising the Lumbees and condemning the Klansmen.Also included with this collection are materials...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Processed: 2022
Charlie Rose Congressional Collection
Collection
Identifier: CRCC-2020
Content Description
The Charlie Rose Congressional Collection contains materials spanning his legislative service to the 7th District of North Carolina. This collection was digitized in 2020 with funding from a Library Services and Technology Act grant from the State of North Carolina.
Dates:
1973-1997
Environmental Oral Histories of Southeastern North Carolina
Collection
Identifier: ENVIRO
Dates:
Record Keeping: 2013 - 2016
Local Area Newspaper Collection
Collection
Identifier: LANC-2020
Scope and Contents
Limited runs of small press local area newspapers including Pembroke Progress, Pembroke Eagle, The Lumbee; Maxton Times, Native Visions, The Robeson Journal, The Pilot, The Evening Star and Piedmond Herald Herald, The Lumberton Post, and Lumbee Pride.
Dates:
Publication: 1945-present
Phillip Austin Roberts Engineering Collection
Collection — Flat File: 1
Identifier: PARE-2019
Content Description
Maps, architectural drawings, and other engineer's files from the office Phillip Austin Roberts, engineer. Phillip Austin “Rip” Roberts (1894–1953) was born July 24, 1894 in Red Springs, NC and died March 3, 1953 in Lumberton, NC. He graduated from the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Raleigh (NC A&T) in 1916. He came to Robeson County before 1938 as a civil engineer and became the engineer for the City of Lumberton. He left in 1949 to become the City Manager of...
Dates:
1906 - 1982
Robeson County and the Second World War
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: WREC-0000-0000
Dates:
1940 - 1950
Rundus Collection on Joseph Mitchell
Collection
Identifier: RCJM-2005
Scope and Contents
The Rundus Collection of Joseph Mitchell includes personal books,correspondence, and background information collected by Dr. Raymond J.Rundus. Dr. Rundus’ longtime interest in Mr. Mitchell prompted him to write two books: Joseph Mitchell: Pilgrim in Manhattan and Joseph Mitchell: A Reader’s and Writer’s Guide . Mr. Mitchell was born in Fairmont in 1908 where he lived until his relocation to New York in 1928. He spent 58 years as a writer for The New Yorker while maintaining family ties in...
Dates:
2005-
The Al Kahn Robeson County Bicentennial Collection
Collection — Container: Digital Folder
Identifier: KAHN-0000
Dates:
Record Keeping: 1976 - 1992