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Robeson County courthouse in Lumberton, 1978. In the 1980s Robeson County was among the poorest counties in the state of North Carolina, United States.It had a triracial population of about 101,000 people of whom 26 percent were black, 37 percent were white, and 37 percent were Native American (mostly members of the Tuscarora and Lumbee tribes).
On February 1, 1988, two Tuscarora men took hostages in the offices of The Robesonian in Lumberton in an attempt to bring attention to the death of a black man in the Robeson County jail and allegations of corruption in the sheriff's department—namely that sheriff's deputies were involved smuggling cocaine. They surrendered after state ...
Robeson County lies within the bounds of North Carolina's 20th Prosecutorial District, the 16B Superior Court District, and the 16B District Court District. [211] County residents elect a county sheriff, clerk of Superior Court, and district attorney. [212] Judicial officials work out of the Robeson County Courthouse in Lumberton. [206]
Malcolm Gray McLeod (May 29, 1914 – June 3, 1987) was an American law enforcement officer who served as the Sheriff of Robeson County, North Carolina from 1950 to 1978. . Born in Lumberton, he worked as a service station operator and a grocery salesman before deciding to run for the office of sheriff in 1950, pledging to modernize the office and crack down on bootleg
" The Robesonian March 14, 1958: 1.(Full text via Newspapers.com.) "Heap bad Kluxers armed with gun, Indian angry paleface run." Ebony, 13 (April 1958): 25–26, 28. "Lumbee Indians form own news service." News and Observer April 10, 1958: 23. Craven, Charles. "The Robeson County Indian uprising against the Ku Klux Klan."
Henry Ward Oxendine was born on September 4, 1940, in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States to Lockey Oxendine and Nancy Locklear Oxendine. [1] He was a member of the Lumbee tribe . [ 2 ] He was raised on a farm in the Union Chapel community in Robeson County. [ 3 ]