1. The history of the KKK--First and Second Movements
... Era The post- Civil War time period, or Reconstruction as it is commonly known, was the beginning of a new era in Southern history. The Radical Republican Congress placed the South under military rule; non-Southerners known as scallywags and carpetbaggers gained access to state house positions. In 1868, the thirteenth amendment was passed freeing all bondsmen from enslavement, followed by the 14th amendment ... to the further destruction done to the South by Reconstruction. The Klan formed as a fraternal order similar in structure and hierarchy to Masonic groups. The KKK was a quasi-mil...
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