The Klu Klux Klan was a very devestating group from when it formed in the late 1800s till today. In what you will read below, It will tell you everything you want to know about the Klu Klux Klan. I will explain how it found, started & restarted. Also I'll show how there dresses were like and what there work was as a Klu Klux Klan member. I will tell you and explain one of there worst acts, the church burnings. Finally, you will learn what the Klu Klux Klan symbol was and what they are like overseas.
             Late 1800's: The Klu Klux Klan also heard as the KKK was put together as a social club by a small group of the confederate Army veterans. The was put together in Pulaski, Tennessee near 1865. The Klan's 1st leader was Nathan Bedford Forrest. Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate General and was nickamed the "Grand Wizard." The name The Klu Klux Klan was found by the group. Its a greek word "kuklos", which means circle in greek and in english it means clan.
             The main idea or philosphy of the KKK was white superiorness. The KKK would use violence and terrorization of blacks a lot. This was done to exercise the philosophy of white supiorness. The KKK was against all ideas of the blacks getting any rights after the Civil War. The KKK terrorized blacks to try to prevent them from voting in the elections or to practice any other rights. In the south, black and white sypathizers were threatened, beaten or murded by KKK members. The KKK became knows at the invisble empire because it grew so fast.
             In 1871, Congress passed the Force Bill. The force Bill was an act that gave the President permission to use federal troops against the KKK if this was necessarily needed. The KKK disapeard shortly after the Bill was passed.
             Early 1900's: A new Klan was formed and put together in Stone Mountain, Georgia as a patriotic protestant fraternal society.. The Leader or person who established the group was William J. Simmons, who was ...