against people of African-American, Jewish, and Catholic decent. They came to power

after the American Civil War. Today the Klan is still trying to obtain their original goal of

white supremacy, but are going about it in a very different manner. When they first began

everything that they wanted to accomplish was done through violent hate crimes. Today

they are going about their business through politics instead of with a criminal instinct.1

The KKK, as they were known by most people, was first formed after the

American Civil War by a group of Confederate Army veterans in Pulaski Tennessee the

year 1866. Their elected Grand Wizard, or leader, was a former Confederate general,

Nathan Bedford Forrest. The Klan’s first main goal was to stop the African American’s

from voting. Other groups involved in this idea of white supremacy were the White

Brotherhood, the Men of Justice, the constitutional Union Guards, and the Knights of the

These groups were established to counteract the influence that the radical members

of Congress were trying to inflict upon the South. After the Civil War, Congress’s first

4,000,000 members. Even though many of the Klansmen were arrested for serious crimes,

embraces in its membership a large proportion of the white population of every profession

work, a place to go to school, and better health facilities. Congress however had a difficult

now in full swing in the South the Klan disappeared as quickly as it had come into focus.

large banner that will pop up that clearly states “Whites Only!”. On their membership form

was an organization set up to help the newly freed African Americans with a place to live,

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