KKK

Ku Klux Klan A secret terrorist organization that began in the southern states during the reconstruction period following the Civil War and was reactivated on a larger basis in the 20th century. The original Klan was brought together in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1865, by six X-Confederate officers who gave their society a name from the Greek word kuklos. Although the Ku Klux Klan began as a prankish social organization, its activities soon were directed against the …

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