Everything You Need to Know About the KKK
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From KKK recruitment materials and decades-old propaganda to meeting notes and ledgers, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety’s findings are both alarming and imperative to telling the full story of America. Now, The Root is taking a closer look into one of the most notorious terrorist organizations of all time.
At the end of the Civil War, the overall consensus was that the Confederacy needed to be punished. This resulted in strict Union military presence in the American south to control ongoing fallout from the war.
At the same time, formerly enslaved Black Americans began to take control of their own lives. For the first time in history, this meant Black folks like Hiram Rhodes Revels, the nation’s first Black senator, were elected to political office and began growing their own wealth.
Rapidly growing Black communities presented several problems for supporters of the Confederacy still disgusted at the idea of the end of slavery, however.
The Ku Klux Klan was formed in Pulaski, Tenn. on Dec. 24, 1865, the same year the Civil War ended. According to PBS, the original intent of the organization was to be a social club for former Confederate soldiers… But soon, terror struck.
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