... as allegiances among the whites who shared these feelings of defenselessness. Groups such as the Pale Faces, the Sons of Midnight, and the Knights of While Camelia began to appear across the South. A group of former Confederate soldiers formed a similar such group called the Ku Klux Klan. The smaller groups were eventually absorbed into the KKK, which became the premier group ... of its kind as numerous branches sprang up all across the South. In Pulaski, Tennessee, under the rule of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the "invisible empire of the South" was born in opposition to the furthe...

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