On this night, 68 years ago, a rally of 50 armed Ku Klux Klansmen in the black water swamps surrounding the Lumber River in southeast North Carolina, finds themselves surrounded by 400–1000 armed members of the newly-recognized Lumbee tribe. The police, who had discouraged the KKK from meeting in the first place, are helpless as guns start firing.

Nobody is killed, and the Klansmen run and hide in the swamp.

The Lumbee celebrate their vistory in Pembroke with a late-night parade. They burn an effigy of the Grand Wizard in front of the police station.