14 June 1963

MEMORANDUM TO: Colonel David T. Lambert
Commanding 
State Highway Patrol
Raleigh, North Carolina

Attention: Major C. Raymond Williams

SUBJECT: Racial Situation, Fayetteville, 13 June 1963

1. The following report was made to this office by Sergeant R. F. 
Williamson:

Demonstrators from Fayetteville State Teachers College began 
demonstrations today at 4:00 P.M.. Approximately 300 students 
were involved in this demonstration. At approximately 4:00 P.M. 
a "team" of approximately 16 students stationed themselves at 
the Carolina Soda Shop which is located on Hay Street next to the 
Carolina Theater. Others were at the theaters, except the Miracle
which has a restraining order to show cause, etc., and at restaurants. 
At approximately 4:05 P.M., Mrs. Bill Crawley came out of the soda 
shop to gather up papers which were left beside the Soda Shop and 
adjacent to the sidewalks. It is alleged that as she started to 
pick up the papers a Negro female demonstrator pushed her and as 
Mrs. Crawley raised up, she pushed back the demonstrator. The 
demonstrator is alleged to have slapped Mrs. Crawley in the face 
after the pushing incident. Mrs. Crawley is approximately 48 
years of age. This incident was witnessed by Captain Melvin of 
the Fayetteville Police Department. Captain Melvin "grabbed" the 
girl to place her under arrest and at this time another male 
demonstrator, Willis McLeod, Fayetteville Teachers College and a 
native of Dillon, South Carolina, grabbed Captain Melvin by the 
arm. This was witnessed by two police officers who immediately 
grabbed McLeod and placed him under arrest for assault and resisting 
arrest. McLeod, including this arrest, has been arrested three times.
He is supposed to be a the leader of the demonstrators. The female 
demonstrator was also arrested for assault. The two were taken