Despite violent and non-violent economic and political suppression the freedom riders continued the protests. The Ku Klux Klan is a secret hate group that started in the southern Untied States. The group is uncontrollable towards the law and uses violence on whomever they are attacking.the white citizen councils is an organization founded in the southern United States that was founded to oppose racial integration of schools, voting and public facilities. There were many attacks where the local police should have shut down these internationally know racist groups,but sadly all local departments agreed with the situation. On May 14th 1961 the Ku Klux Klan had a plan to firebomb the Freedom Riders bus in the Birmingham terminal. The local police
