The Original Klan1865-1882
As racism began to flourish and intensify throughout the Twentieth Century, the idea of a white supremacy group was reborn in the South and Midwest. The Ku Klux Klan was originally created in Pulaski Tennessee in 1865 as a social club for Confederate veterans. Their main goal was to withstand Reconstruction and as they began to share their common values against African American citizens, the group quickly transformed to a terrorist organization. After the Klan committed hundreds of hate crimes throughout the South and Midwest during the late Nineteenth Century, the Ku Klux Klan Act was declared unconstitutional in 1882 by United States Supreme Court. However not long after the Ku Klux Klan Act was up and running once again.
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