KKK

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is one of America's oldest and most feared groups. Driven by the dream of a world with only one master race, the KKK often uses violence and moves above the law to promote their cause. The Ku Klux Klan is a secret society based on hatred and violence. The Ku Klux Klan originated over one hundred years ago and has gone through many eras and changes since its beginning. The …

…they had accomplished all of their goals. They vowed to continue protecting the white people, reducing the black vote, and getting ride of all carpetbaggers and scalawags. By 1877, when Rutherford B. Hayes became president, federal troops forcefully to control over all of the areas of the south were occupied by the Klan. As a result, General Nathan Bedford Forrest then left the Klan and the original and fearful Klan had eventually broken up. (Fiery Cross, 111)