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Pulaski, Tennessee
The KKK was formed at the end of the US Civil War in Pulaski, Tennessee.
Tennessee
The first Ku Klux Klan was founded on December 24th, 1865 by six Tennessee veterans of the Confederate army.
Yes but most are in hiding.
They apparently started in Tennessee, after the Civil War
The KKK was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee.
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) was the famous Confederate cavalry officer from Tennessee who helped to start the KKK -- the Ku Klux Klan -- after the Civil War. Serving as the first 'Grand Wizard' in the shadowy organization, Forrest later saw no need to continue his affiliation with the KKK and in fact sought to put an end to its activities.
Nathan Bedford Forrest is often mistaken as founding the KKK. Nathan was a member of the KKK, but it was six men from Tennessee who actually started the organization.
During the 1950s
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