The rally would prove that the organization could operate openly in Robeson County.

The cross burnings would look like the beginning of a campaign rather than the end of one.

Nothing happened according to that script.

The Lumbee became the crowd.

The Klan became the surrounded minority.

The light went dark.

The speakers never delivered the spectacle they had planned.

The banners were abandoned.

The photographs belonged to the people the rally meant to humiliate.

The organizers faced prosecution.