{"id":676,"date":"2016-03-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=676"},"modified":"2017-01-23T17:06:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T22:06:35","slug":"battle-maxton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/battle-maxton\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Maxton Field (Malvina Reynolds)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Battle of Maxton Field\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Svr2aacTz44?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was the first song I ever heard by Malvina Reynolds, once again on Pete Seeger&#8217;s <em>Gazette<\/em> LP &#8212; I was too young to be aware of &#8220;Little Boxes&#8221; or &#8220;What Have They Done to the Rain&#8221; when they were on the radio, so first became aware of her through this upbeat song about an armed group of Lumbee Indians routing a Ku Klux Klan rally in North Carolina<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-455 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/malvina-reynolds.jpg?resize=220%2C240\" alt=\"malvina-reynolds\" width=\"220\" height=\"240\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways that was probably good, since it meant I didn&#8217;t think of her as a nice old grandmother, which a lot of people did, and which apparently irritated the hell out of her at times, because she was a fighter and had, in her words, &#8220;a sharp edge.&#8221; She was an atheist, a socialist, wife to a labor organizer, and she prided herself on the professionalism of her songwriting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Battle of Maxton Field&#8221; is not one of her best, but it appealed to me as a kid because it was rowdy and fun and the good guys won. I was so young when I heard this that I didn&#8217;t know what the Klan was, and had to ask my mom &#8212; but years later, my father was at a political meeting of some sort in North Carolina, and came back with a story about the Lumbee Indians having battled the Klan down there, and I startled him by already knowing the story.<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-454\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Maxton-clip-295x300.jpg?resize=295%2C300\" alt=\"Maxton clip\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Maxton-clip.jpg?resize=295%2C300&amp;ssl=1 295w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Maxton-clip.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was national news at the time (January 1958), with the <em>New York Times<\/em> noting that Robeson County, NC, was triply segregated, with separate school systems for white, black, and Indian children. 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