... to violence. In the past their raids often led to the death of many black people. Today with a new form of terrorism they have tried to poison water supplies, rob banks, plant bombs, and commits assassinations; some were even accomplished successfully before the law interfered. The original Ku Klux Klan was organized by ex-Confederate elements to oppose the Reconstruction policies ... the lack of interest killed the organization in 1877. It would be twenty-three years before the KKK tried to rebuild. With the help of a Methodist preacher named "Colonel" William Joseph Simmons the KKK sl...

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