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The Ku Klux Klan's origins in 1867 in Pulaski, Tennessee, and its reorganization in 1915 near Atlanta.
began in , when six Confederate veterans formed a secret fraternal order in late 1865/early 1866; historians agree the original core were local ex‑Confederates who created costumes and rituals that la...
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...
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 ...
that emerged in the immediate post–Civil War years was overwhelmingly a vehicle of white Southern resistance to governments, not an organization of Republicans; its members were primarily ex-Confedera...
The Ku Klux Klan and neo‑Nazi movements have long been separate strands of American racial extremism whose relationship has oscillated between rivalry, uneasy cooperation, and mutual absorption depend...