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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).
The newspaper attracted national attention when on February 1, 1988, when two Native Americans entered the newspaper's offices armed [8] and took 20 hostages. [9] The stand-off lasted ten hours; Timothy Jacobs and Eddie Hatcher [10] hoped to attract attention to the plight of American Indians, and later, after their arrest, had a local civil rights attorney deliver a letter to Mikhail ...
Lumberton served as county residents' primary area of commerce for much of the area's early history, as transportation links with major regional cities elsewhere were tenuous. [25] The 1790 United States census recorded 5,356 county residents. [19] The county's first U.S. Post Office was established there by 1796. [24]
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 ...
Glenn Maynor was born in 1946 in Lumberton, North Carolina, United States. [1] He is a Lumbee Native American. [2] He attended Magnolia High School and played on the school's basketball team, [3] later attending Fayetteville Technical Community College and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. [1]
Lumberton is a city in Robeson County, North Carolina, United States.As of 2020, its population was 19,025. [5] It is the county seat of Robeson County. [6]Located in southern North Carolina's Inner Banks region, Lumberton is located on the Lumber River.
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Jul. 31—LUMBERTON — A 26-year-old Lumberton man is wanted by the Robeson County Sheriff's Office for a June murder. Chamberlian Lee Oxendine is wanted for alleged first-degree murder ...