the Ku Klux Klan

The Ku-Klux-Klan

Facts about the Ku-Klx-Klan:
- formed in May or early June 1966 in Pulaski, Tennessee by a small group of Confederate veterans (only 6 men)
- the name Ku-Klux-Klan was derived from the greek word kyklos, circle
- principal organization for underground resistance to Radical Reconstruction after the Civil War (they wanted to fight against the civil rights movement that freed the slaves after the American Civil War)
- Klan was supposed to be a social club ( former Klan members were riding through the country to scare black people)
- The Klan was quickly populated by Southeners after military defeat -> spread throughout the former Confederate states
- During Reconstruction: 12,000 members in Alabama (mainly young men joined the KKK because they thought they had missed out on the war and easily because of the physical nature of Ku kluxing)
- The KKK define themselves as a political party

Aims and general belief
- they believe that the USA was founded as a wh...