The following is an announcement written by DigitalNC: 

Thanks to our partner, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP), a batch of materials containing the university’s 2024 yearbook, newspaper announcement, and over 100 issues of our newest paper The Lumbee (Pembroke, N.C.) spanning from 1965 to 1969 is now available on DigitalNC! These newspaper issues provide an interesting look into the county’s history including a brawl with the Ku Klux Klan in Maxton in 1958 and education in Robeson County.

On February 20, 1969, The Lumbee published the desegregation plan submitted to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by the Robeson County Board of Education. Divided into cardinal and ordinal directions, the county’s schools are discussed in-depth. The article includes the names of the schools, which race they originally served, conditions of schools, what schools were slated to close, and where children in the area were being transferred to.

The Lumbee, February 20, 1969, page 3

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