Their mission is the same as all B.A.C.A. This club was formed in January 2002.īikers Against Child Abuse NH Chapter This is the New Hampshire Chapter of B.A.C.A. Your motorcycle must be at least 35 years old.Īrawyns MC The members of this Bogalusa, LA USA club are proud of their southern heritage and have an everlasting passion to ride motorcycles and band together as brothers.
They take their name from an old Army National Guard unit but they have no military affiliation.Īmerican Legion Riders This is billed as not a motorcycle club but rather a group of American Legion members who ride to have fun and support charities.Īntique Motorcycle Club of America This is the national organization with 37 chapters that conducts meets and road rides.
Submit your own group's picture.ġ19th Motorcycle Company This Flemington, NJ club invites all riders and all bikes. Motorcycle Club or Group Pictures Motorcycle clubs and other groups have submitted pictures and descriptions of their organization for our gallery. If you are responsible for a motorcycle club, motorcycle riding club, motorcycle association chapter, or other motorcycle group, please submit its URL to be included in our list of clubs. Motorcycle Clubs or Groups Motorcycle clubs and other groups are discussed. Hell's Angel - a Review There have been many books and movies about the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) but no inside definitive source of information about this well known but mysterious club has surfaced until now with the release of Sonny Barger's book.
Here are links to articles, features, and actual motorcycle clubs that have websites. If you visit any motorcycle museum, look for the old pictures of motorcycle clubs hanging on the walls. When Governor John Patterson announced that he was unable to guarantee the safety of the Freedom Riders in Alabama, seventeen of the group were forced to fly to New Orleans, after enduring hours of delays because of bomb threats at the Birmingham airport.Motorcycle clubs (also known as MCs or M/Cs) have been around since the introduction of the motorcycle. The Freedom Riders were finally rescued by a convoy from the Black community in Birmingham organized by Civil Rights Leader, Rev. A member of the crowd tossed a firebomb through a broken window, others tried to block the doors, forcing the Freedom Riders to escape through a window. The bus left Anniston but was soon abandoned by its police escort just six miles out of town on Route 202, where it was again surrounded by an angry white mob. A mob organized by the Ku Klux Klan attacked the bus, smashing windows, slashing tires and denting the outside of the bus. When the Greyhound bus arrived in Anniston on that afternoon they found the terminal locked. The two buses (one a Greyhound bus and one a Trailways bus) that set out from Washington, DC arrived in Alabama on May 14, 1961, where they were met by members of the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacist mobs. Lewis, the legendary civil rights activist and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020, was beaten up and imprisoned for 40 days while participating in the Freedom Rides. Among the original group of freedom riders was John Lewis (1940-2020). Organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), two groups of riders left Washington, DC on May 4, 1961. The Freedom Riders planned to integrate bus terminal waiting rooms, restaurants, and other services at bus stops throughout the South, where local Jim Crow laws preserved racial segregation in defiance of federal law. Virginia that segregation of interstate transportation facilities, including bus terminals, was unconstitutional. In 1961, civil rights activists set out to test a 1960 Supreme Court decision in Boynton v. We knew our lives could be threatened, but we had made up our minds not to turn back." "We were determined not to let any act of violence keep us from our goal.
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