Ralph Lord Roy (September 30, 1928 – 2020) was a Methodist pastor and author, as well as a Freedom Rider and activist in the Civil rights movement.
It discussed some of the racist elements hiding within American Protestantism and was the first published history of the emerging Christian Identity movement.
[8] Roy was part of the Interfaith Freedom Ride from Washington, D.C. to Tallahassee, Florida June 13–16, 1961,[9] an act that resulted in jail time.
[5] After meeting with Martin Luther King Jr. in the summer of 1962, Roy and Israel Dresner organized a "prayer pilgrimage" on August 28, 1962, in Albany, Georgia.
[5] In 1994, he received the Unitarian Universalist Church Humanitarian of the Year award, recognizing his work with the civil rights movement, and his activism with MLK.