Cole himself escaped the immediate confrontation.

Others needed law enforcement protection to leave safely.

North Carolina sources record minor injuries but no fatalities.

Several vehicles were damaged.

Klan materials were abandoned.

The humiliation was immediate because the Klan had come specifically to demonstrate that it controlled the situation.

It left without completing the rally.

The people it intended to frighten were celebrating.

This was not the permanent defeat of the Ku Klux Klan as an organization.

Klan activity continued elsewhere in North Carolina and across the South.