The Lumbee burned the Klan's equipment and flags and danced around the fire until the police showed up. Outnumbered and taken by surprise, the Klan leader hightailed it into the swamps where he was found and arrested on riot charges. The Lumbee stormed the gathering under the dark of night with guns blazing, sending the rednecks scattering in their bedsheets. When a Lumbee woman was seen around town dating a white man, the KKK accused the Lumbee of undermining Jim Crow laws with their "race mixing." Veteran members of the tribe plotted a surprise attack on a Klan meeting after they burned a cross in the woman's front yard.
As a child, Afeni witnessed wars between white supremacists and a local Native American tribe. Walter Williams Sr., was a sharecropper and preacher in the town of Lumberton. In 1947, the year of her birth, Hank Williams' first smash hit was wafting over the airwaves all over the south and desegregation was still a decade away. Born Alice Faye Williams, Afeni Shakur was a country girl from the inner banks of North Carolina.
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