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City in Tennessee, United States
The Ku Klux Klan was created twice in distinct forms: an original group founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865–66 by a small band of Confederate veterans, and a separate national revival organized in ...
The Ku Klux Klan was first created as a post–Civil War fraternal and white-supremacist organization by a small group of former Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee, in late 1865/early 1866; that...
Contemporary reporting and historical summaries agree the Ku Klux Klan began in the wake of the Civil War in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865 as a group formed by six Confederate veterans; that first organ...
The Ku Klux Klan (first incarnation) began in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865–66 as a small, oath‑bound fraternal group of mostly former Confederate soldiers that quickly transformed into a violent, white...
Historians identify six Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee, as the founders of the original Ku Klux Klan, but the exact roster and the date of formation vary across reputable sources; names ...
Historians treat the Ku Klux Klan as a multi‑phase phenomenon: an 1865–70 Reconstruction terrorist movement rooted in Southern opposition to black political rights, a mass, nationwide “second Klan” in...
The claim that “the Democratic Party started the Ku Klux Klan” is false: historians attribute the Klan’s founding to a small group of former Confederate officers in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865, not to...
The Ku Klux Klan was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865–66 by six ex‑Confederate veterans who initially created a social fraternity before converting into a violent political force during Reconstr...
The statement “KU KLUX KLAN” points to a complex historical phenomenon: the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) has multiple origins, periods of resurgence, and a record of violent racism that has influenced U.S. poli...