Bernard Harding Dixon (1921-2000): Providence
Clyde Ray Jones (7 May 1977): Milton
Sam Winstead: Leasburg [possibly Samuel Harvey Winstead (1925-2021)]
Donald Poteat: Yanceyville [possibly Donald Hayden Poteat (1930-1978)]
Edward Vernon: Southern Caswell County [possibly Edward Rose Vernon (1895-1977)]
Wilbur Chandler: Anderson [possibly Wilbur Gwynn Chandler (1930-2006)]
John B. Sartin: Locust Hill [possibly John Bailey Sartin (1915-1971)]
Cary Gatewood: Pelham [possibly Cary Iverson Gatewood (1915-2006)]
Robert Coleman: Leasburg [possibly Robert Lee Coleman (1916-1973)]
John P. Slaughter: Dan River Township [possibly John Proctor Slaughter (1909-1999)]
The Herald-Sun (Durham, North Carolina), 20 June 1958, Friday, Page 25.
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With the help of members from 59 of the state's 100 counties, the White Patriots sent recruitment letters, advertised on the radio and television, and held public meetings to spread their white supremacist message. Members urged white North Carolinians not to let "the negro destroy the white race"; racial mixing, they claimed, would destroy the white race and produce a "mongrel population." Capitalizing on Cold War fears, the Patriots also charged that proponents of desegregation were communists.
"White Patriots of North Carolina" by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae in Encyclopedia of North Carolina edited by William S. Powell. Copyright © 2006 by the University of North Carolina Press.
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