The KKK and the Freedom Rides.
- Created by: Rebecca Gallacher
- Created on: 21-05-14 16:56
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- The KKK and the Freedom Rides.
- The FBI knew about the violence.
- In Birmingham, a public safety commissioner told the KKK to attack the bus.
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- 100 members of the KKK ambushed riders in Anniston - started fires.
- The KKK worked with the police.
- They co-operated and the police didn't try to stop the violence.
- An undercover cop lets freedom riders out the bus to prevent them from burning alive.
- Alabama racists attacked black passengers with clubs and chains.
- The SNCC tried to join the freedom rides but the buses refused to take them.
- The KKK harrassed them while they waited.
- The KKK hassled the riders to prevent them from reaching other protests.
- Didn't want the desegregation to spread.
- Kennedy asked the freedom riders to stop for their own safety.
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