Lumbee people confronted a Klan rally at Hayes Pond near Maxton, North Carolina, and drove its participants away. Their organized response resisted threats intended to enforce white supremacy. The...
A bomb at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church killed Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley. The church had served as a gathering place for civil rights organizing....
Ku Klux Klan and Nazi participants attacked an antiracist demonstration in Greensboro, killing five people. Organizers had connected opposition to white supremacy with labour organizing in the region....