The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan formed a branch in, Louisiana, in 1920 and nearly took control of the state in 1922.

"Night riders is what we call them," said William Bader, who in a phone interview last month identified himself as the ...

After Ku Klux Klan members boarded a bus and attacked ... the rulings and the southern states had ignored them. The Freedom Riders’ journey began on May 4 1961 when 18-year old Person and ...

Presiding over the flock of followers was a familiar face: Father Reginald Jean-Mary, well known as Father Reggie, a prominent local Haitian-American Catholic priest.

Gary Lawless, a poet, editor, publisher, community activist and co-owner of Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick, presented on Brunswick’s history with the Ku Klux Klan at Curtis Memorial Library on ...

Responsible government officials, organizations must stand up to his strong-arm tactics and human and civil rights violations ...

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 leaves behind his devoted ...

Metropolitan A.M.E. Church in Washington, D.C., won a $2.8 million judgment against hate group for damaging church property ...

During their month as prisoners, suspected Ku Klux Klan members left a burning cross ... Another Trailways bus with Freedom Riders also headed out. Mr. Gaither was sent to Montgomery, Alabama ...

Connor once disclosed in 1963 his clever plan to discourage civil rights “freedom riders” by holding back his police and giving the KKK a fifteen-to-twenty-minute head start to attack them.

Image Mr. Gaither, right, with a Freedom Rider, Henry Thomas ... were arrested and beaten by white mobs led by the Ku Klux Klan. The commercial buses they rode in were firebombed.

For a week in 1964, the jail was the epicenter of America's civil rights movement, as Martin Luther King Jr. and several ...