The first branch of the Ku Klux Klan was established in Pulaski, Tennessee, in May, 1866. A year later a general organization of local Klans was established in Nashville in April, 1867. Most of the leaders were former members of the Confederate Army and the first Grand Wizard was Nathan Forrest, an outstanding general during the American Civil War. During the next two years Klansmen wearing masks, white cardboard hats and draped in white sheets, tortured and killed black Americans and sympathetic whites. Immigrants, who they blamed for the election of Radical Republicans, were also targets of their hatred. Between 1868 and 1870 the Ku Klux Klan played an important role in restoring white rule in North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia.
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Almost sounds, by the darkened print, like they were Democrats! Just kidding!!!
Psycho4Bud Reviewed by Psycho4Bud on . The KKK... After having a conversation about white-supremacy with a friend, I looked up the Ku Klux Klan on Wikipedia, and found something I thought was pretty interesting..... Apparantly, in 1867, when the Klan was formalised as a national organisation, they set out their purposes and intents, which were; First: To protect the weak, the innocent, and the defenseless from the indignities, wrongs and outrages of the lawless, the violent and the brutal; to relieve the injured and oppressed; to Rating: 5