Category: 35. The Ku Klux Klan routing of 1958

    1194. “Membership in Klan is offered to Indians.” New York Times 22 March 1966: 43.

Publication type: Newspaper article

After reports that the Indians were stockpiling weapons, the Klan’s scheduled cross-burning at the site of the 1958 routing was forbidden by a Superior Court injunction. As a new approach, the Grand Dragon of the North Carolina Klan is offering membership to the Lumbees and plans a recruiting trip. The Klan wants to ally with the Indians and help them gain civil rights.

This annotation first appeared in The Lumbee Indians: An Annotated Bibliography (McFarland, 1994), by Glenn Ellen Starr.

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