The Civil War which lasted four long years and left the south honor-less and depressed, lead to the freeing of the slaves shortly after. Poor whites and others against freed blacks feared and rejected this change and wouldn’t tolerate it. The Ku Klux Klan, a.k.a. the KKK, formed by whites against freed blacks was and still is a terrorist group, initially consisting of Civil War Confederate veterans who struck fear into the …showed first 75 words of 1085 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1085 total…once again, and using their original creed, but a shortened version: “White supremacy over blacks,” the immigrants were now also targeted. The Ku Klux Klan terrorized blacks, Jews, immigrants and whites who were anti-slavery and did so using the guise of a ghost. After rising, falling, and rising again, they are still strong. Their numbers are great and in the late 1800s, even the army couldn’t suppress them. Will they ever stop the terror?