(Meltzer 19-20). The North said, "Let the White South handle the Negro problem by itself, it knows best." (21). With that mind attitude, the Civil War continued in guerrilla warfare for about another 22 years (Cook 11). After the war, when officials were elected, they all adopted "Black Codes" that put blacks "back in their place" which was serving the whites (Meltzer 9). After the Klan had taken control in the Reconstruction era, it faded away but left a wake of violence behind (Wade 54).
             A revival of the Klan swept through the Nation in the 1920s; the mind frame being anti-black, anti-semitic, and anti-Catholic (Cook 2). Thomas Dixon Jr. wrote three novels supporting white supremacy and in 1915 turned one into a movie called The Birth of a Nation, that started the rebirth of the Klan (Meltzer 24). William Joseph Simmons was the leader of the "new Klan" after the old Klan from the war had died down (Cook 35). Simmons had a vision for the revival of the Klan and he made himself "Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire" (35-36). Simmons organized he Klan into "eight districts, each consisting of a group of States, each would be headed by a Grand Dragon. Grand Titans would head provinces and each congressional district, and Exalted Cyclops wo
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