Kelvin Ray Oxendine

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[Kelvin Ray Oxendine @NativeKRO]

If this happened today…it would be plastered all over. But it didn’t and most people have never heard of it.

An Indigenous community stood together. An entire hate filled movement collapsed in minutes.

Beneath the Swamp’s Shadow brings that moment back into view.

[Kelvin Ray Oxendine @NativeKRO]

History hides some of its most powerful stories.

1958. Hayes Pond.
The Klan came for intimidation.
They left humiliated.

An Indigenous community stood together and won.

Beneath the Swamp’s Shadow brings it to life.

Have you read it?

#NativeHistory #IndigenousVoices

[Kelvin Ray Oxendine @NativeKRO]

100+ libraries. Worldwide.

From Harvard to New Zealand to South Africa...this story is spreading.

Henry Berry Lowry.
Hayes Pond.
A history most were never taught.

📚 If your library doesn’t have it, request it.
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They said Henry Berry Lowry disappeared.

No grave. No proof.

But some stories don’t end...
they carry forward.

In names. In memory. In blood.

And one day… they rise again. 🪶
#HenryBerryLowry #7Generations

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When your version of history starts to crack...

Do you protect it or question it?

Some truths don’t disappear. They wait.

Beneath the Swamp’s Shadow uncovers them.

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Before Hayes Pond...
the ancestors of the present-day Lumbee had already proven who they were.

Different century.
Different enemy.

Same land.
Same people.
Same refusal to back down.

📘 Read the full story in Beneath the Swamp’s Shadow.

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[Kelvin Ray Oxendine @NativeKRO]

The Klan brought a rally.

The Natives brought a community.

Hayes Pond - 1958.

Some victories never made the history books.

Read about it in Beneath the Swamp’s Shadow.

#Indigenous #Lumbee #Tuscarora #HayesPond #HenryBerryLowrie

[Kelvin Ray Oxendine @NativeKRO]

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When the Ku Klux Klan came to Hayes Pond in 1958 expecting fear…

they found something else.

A community shaped by the legacy of Henry Berry Lowrie nearly 100 years earlier.

Some battles begin long before the night they’re fought.

📘 Beneath the Swamp’s Shadow

[Kelvin Ray Oxendine @NativeKRO]

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January 18, 1958.

The Ku Klux Klan came to Hayes Pond expecting fear.
Instead they met the Lumbee, Tuscarora, and other Natives standing together.

The rally ended with Klansmen fleeing into the darkness.

That story lives on in Beneath the Swamp’s Shadow.

#NativeHistory

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📖✨ Beneath the Swamp’s Shadow by Kelvin Ray Oxendine honours those who stood firm, those who carried memory when others would have erased it, and those who continue to walk forward with that inheritance held close.

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I’m incredibly grateful for this powerful review of Beneath the Swamp’s Shadow by Tellen Thurlow:

“I thoroughly enjoyed Beneath the Swamp’s Shadow… a well-written and thought-out story set in 1958 North Carolina... this book kept me hooked. I’m seriously thinking of buying the paperback—something I rarely ever do—and adding it to my top 20 collection... the characters, the flow, and the research are phenomenal.”

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@histories_arch What really happened the night the Ku Klux Klan came to Robeson County?
Beneath the Swamp’s Shadow is a powerful historical fiction novel based on the true events of the 1958 Battle of Hayes Pond, where Lumbee and Tuscarora community members rose up and drove the Klan out of NC.

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