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

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 ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. Now the home of ...

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

The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a ...

Major crime in the Big Apple saw a 2% drop in the first few months of the fiscal year — along with a dip in transit crime, an ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

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.

The employees walked out in white costumes resembling the gear worn by the white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan. Though the company denied the allegations and issued an apology, people are ...

Several cities in Northern Kentucky received reports of fliers calling on people to monitor and report all immigrants and encouraging membership in the Ku Klux Klan. By Alexandra E. Petri The ...

P&O Cruises Australia apologized after costumes worn by crew members were "misconstrued" as similar to Ku Klux Klan hoods. The employees were dressed as snow cones for a family Christmas event ...

FORT WRIGHT, KY — KKK flyers were left in neighborhoods across the Tri-State, according to our news partner WCPO Cincinnati. Residents in Fort Wright, Kentucky found the flyers left on their doors.