Oct 29, 2009 · Founded in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction -era...

The Ku Klux Klan (/ ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn, ˌkjuː -/), [e] commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the devastated South.

Since Christmas Eve in 1865, membership in the Ku Klux Klan ignited and multiplied three separate times, in each instance enacting brutal violence and terror -- but the Klan's power never...

Jan 27, 2025 · Ku Klux Klan, either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. One group was founded immediately after the Civil War and lasted until the 1870s. The other began in 1915 and has continued to the present.

Over the decades, the Ku Klux Klan has evolved to target its message of hate against many different populations. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribeAbo...

In 1865, at the conclusion of the Civil War, six Confederate veterans gathered in Pulaski, Tennessee, to create the Ku Klux Klan, a vigilante group mobilizing a campaign of violence and terror against the African American people that benefited from the progress of Reconstruction.

Jan 15, 2010 · Although the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) did not officially invade Oklahoma until 1920, the organization's reputation preceded it by fifty years. Initially the Klan had emerged from the confusion of Reconstruction in the Deep South.

Quickly expanding from a localized membership, the KKK has become perhaps the most resonant representation of white supremacy and racial terror in the U.S. Part of the KKK's enduring …

The Ku Klux Klan was a racist group established by people who believed that white people were better and wanted to see black people remain as enslaved people. It began in the southern states at the...

Jun 6, 2020 · On August 11, Rogers is convicted of six misdemeanors including assault, destruction of property and hit-and-run charges and is sentenced to six years in prison. The Ku Klux Klan (“KKK” or “the Klan”), dedicated to white supremacy, is …