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Title: Robeson County, N.C. - Eddie Hatcher / Timothy Jacobs - National Public Radio (NPR)
Description: News program segment by NPR's Donna Carter regarding Eddie Hatcher and Timothy Jacobs, two Native American civil rights activists who held hostages at the office of The Robesonian newspaper in Lumberton, North Carolina. Hatcher and Jacobs were protesting discrimination against minority communities, specifically Native Americans, in the criminal justice and court systems of Robeson County. Also covered is deputy sheriff Kevin Stone's killing of Jimmy Earl Cummings, a Lumbee Indian man.
Creator Name(s): National Public Radio (U.S.) (creator), Carter, Donna. (reporter)
Date Created: 1988, ca. 1988, ca. 1988
Name Subject(s): Hatcher, Eddie., Jacobs, Timothy., Cummings, Jimmy Earl.
Topical Subject(s): Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States--20th century., Lumbee Indians--North Carolina--Robeson County., Police corruption--North Carolina--Robeson County.
Geographic subjects: United States, 20th century., North Carolina, Robeson County., North and Central America--United States--North Carolina--Robeson--Lumberton, North Carolina, Robeson County.
Physical Location: RG 534, Box 9, Folder 18; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Emergency Fund for Legal Aid for Racial and Intercultural Justice Records, 1969-1998.--https://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-534
Identifier (local): rg534_b9_f18_NPR_Robeson
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:286443

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