originated in the southern states during the period of

Reconstruction following the American Civil War and was

reactivated on a wider geographic basis in the 20th century. The

original Klan was organized in Pulaski, Tennessee, during the

winter of 1865 to 1866, by six former Confederate army officers

who gave their society a name adapted from the Greek word kuklos

("circle"). Although the Ku Klux Klan began as a prankish social

organization, its activities soon were directed against the

Republican Reconstruction governments and their leaders, both

black and white, which came to power in the southern states in

The Ku Klux Klan's long history of violence grew out of the

resentment and hatred many white Southerners felt in the

aftermath of the Civil War. Blacks, having won the struggle for

being "hicks, and rubes and drivers of second hand fords."

and extra-marital escapades and scandalous behavior.

compulsive joiner, holding memberships in many different

However the more respectable members abandoned the Klan when

klansman) Hiram Evans, a dentist, said that they were proud of

conflict, and alleged Klan immorality and violence badly damaged

1918 and 1927, there were no fewer than 417 lynchings of blacks.

In the mid-1920s, inept and exploitive leadership, internal

fraternalists onto a bus and drove them from Atlanta to nearby

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