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 ...

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 ...

Eugene "Bull" Connor was Birmingham’s Commissioner of Public Safety in 1961 when the Freedom Riders came to town. He was known as an ultra-segregationist with close ties to the KKK. Connor ...

Janie Forsyth McKinney was twelve years old when the Freedom Riders came through her hometown of Anniston, Alabama, on May 14, 1961. After local Klan members firebombed the bus, McKinney assisted ...