Joshua D Broome The Ku Klux Klan During Reconstruction The Ku Klux Klan and other intimidators like the Louisiana Knights of the White Camellia, spread rapidly throughout the south as an answer to radical reconstruction. Nathan Bedford Forest formed the Ku-Klux-Klan in Tennessee during 1866...

Michelle Wallace, author of the essay "Boyz in the Hood and Jungle Fever," defines the term "jungle fever" as a "condition in which blacks and whites (Asians, Native Americans, and Latinos appear to be both immune to the disease and irrelevant to the narration) become inti...