Reconstruction following the American Civil War and was reactivated in the 20th century. The

Ku Klux Klan believed in the innate inferiorityof black so therefore mistrusted adn resented the

rise of former slaves to a status of civil equality and often to positions of political power. The

lan became an illegal organization committed to destroying the Reconstruction governments

from the Carolinas to Arkansas. Attired in robes or sheets and wearing masks topped with

pointed hoods, the Klansmen terrorized public officials in effort to drive them from office and

blacks in general to prevent them from voting, holding office, and otherwise exercising their

newly acquird political rights. It was customary for them to burn crosses on hillsides and near

the homes of who they wished to frighten. When such tactics failed to produce the affect they

wanted, the victim would be flogged, mutilated, or murdered. These activities were justified by

the klan as necessary measures in defense of white supremacy and the inviolability of white

A secret convention of Klansmen, held in Nashville, Tennessee, in

storm troops, or SA, to defend its meetings: to disrupt the meetings of liberal democrats,

contempt for parliamentary democracy and agitated for a dictatorship. The nazis blamed the

most highgovernment offices- national,provincal, and local. Party members of "Pure" German

Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Membership was open to native-born, white, Protestant males,

the cabinet. The Act granted Hitler dictatorial powers and signified the end of the Weimer

Nathan B. Forrest, officially dibanded the Klan in 1869. Klaverns continued to operate on their

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