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Confederate States Army general (1821-1877)
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...
The historical record shows that many members and leaders of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1860s and 1870s were politically aligned with and that the Klan operated in practice as a violent force undermi...
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...
Historical evidence connects the Ku Klux Klan to different political parties at different times, but that connection shifts by era and region: the original post‑Civil War Klan acted to oppose Reconstr...
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...