On May 4, 1961, a bus carrying black and white anti-segregation activists called the Freedom Riders rolled into Alabama and was immediately attacked by members of the KKK.

From the South, the robed riders of the Klan came over the border of North Carolina on a hot July night in 1950. A column of 30-odd cars carried the Ku Kluxers through tobacco, cotton, peanut and ...

The group later encountered a violent Ku Klux Klan mob in Birmingham, Alabama. Several Riders were seriously injured, and media reports of the attacks spread quickly. Alabama Gov. John Patterson ...

In Freedom Riders, Burks says she borrowed a line from ... He was present at the Klan-organized riot on May 14 at the Birmingham Trailways Bus Station. The son of a Baptist minister from the ...

Among the riders were a young Person ... But they were met with violence. The Ku Klux Klan brutally beat Person. Others were jailed and attacked by police. Person previously described his ...

that the Klan’s 34 adventurous founders met on Thanksgiving ... for with the edict went a rider. Wizard Evans, who gained his knowledge of human nature as a dentist, had invented the “Knights ...