"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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

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