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===Development=== About 400 Hoke County residents served in the U.S. Army during [[World War I]].{{sfn|Monroe|2011|pp=8β9}} Between 1918 and 1923, the American federal government acquired 92,000 acres of land in the county as part of its efforts to expand Camp Bragg into [[Fort Bragg]].<ref>{{cite news| title = They Fought Uncle Sam for us ... and won| newspaper = The News-Journal| page = 63| edition = Hoke Centennial | date = 2011| url = https://www.thenews-journal.com/graphics/cent.pdf}}</ref> leaving about 150,000 acres leftover.{{sfn|Monroe|2011|p=8}} Over 160 Hoke residents served in the armed forces during [[World War II]].{{sfn|Monroe|2011|p=9}} After the war, the county's Lumbee population increased.{{sfn|Monroe|2011|p=8}} An effort by the [[U.S. Army]] to acquire a further 49,000 acres in the county in 1952 for Fort Bragg was abandoned after intense lobbying by local residents. In 1958, Little River Township, a section of north Hoke which was cut off from the rest of the county due to the presence of the Fort Bragg Military Reservation, was moved into the jurisdiction of [[Moore County, North Carolina|Moore County]].{{sfn|Monroe|2011|p=8}} Public schools, which had been originally racially segregated for whites, blacks, and Native Americans, were integrated in the 1960s.{{sfn|Monroe|2011|p=9}}
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