Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day in January 1958 the Battle of Hayes Pond.

This was an armed confrontation between members of a Ku Klux Klan organization and

Lumbi Indians.

It took place at a clan rally near Maxden. organization and Lumbie Indians.

It took place at a clan rally near Maxton, North Carolina,

the night of January 18, 1958.

Now, we of course think of racialized violence

in the South in this era as in many ways being a

confrontation between white citizens and black citizens, but this story reminds us that there are

many cases where the story is playing out along a bunch of different nuanced dynamics and in this case we have a

tri-racial population in this region, Native Americans, white people, black people,

all living in Robeson County, North Carolina and and we have this really fascinating high stakes

incident that teaches us a lot about this era and this region, so here to discuss it all are,

as always, Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of

Welsley hello there. Hello Jody. Hey there. Um so sometimes people refer to

this as the battle on Maxton Field or the Maxton Riot and the battle on Maxton Field or the Maxton Riot and the Battle of Hayes Pond has

I don't know it just feels a little a little more evocative but actually the

battle Maxon Field is maybe where to start because we should describe when we say

Clan Rally.

I mean, one of the parts of this story that's interesting to me is just sort of a sense of kind of like

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