Ku-Klux-Klan First KKK – 1865-71 Set up by former Confederate soldiers opposed to the ‘Reconstruction’ of the South by the victorious Republicans. Opposed to freedmen’s voting rights. Opposed to Northerners coming South to make money – carpetbaggers and scalawags – out of the Reconstruction governments. Destroyed by the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (aka the Ku Klux Klan Act) of President Ulysses S. Grant.
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1920s , Klan , Klux , Ku
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