they used violence
To intimidate
Ku Klux Klan
To intimidate them and prevent them from exercising their rights.
they used violence
The Ku Klux Klan did not want newly freed Blacks to vote because they wanted to intimidate them and keep them from positions of power. The Ku Klux Klan used many methods of terror and harassment to intimidate Blacks, but in 1870 the Enforcement Acts were enacted to prevent this.
A freedman who had been brave enough to speek out against the Klan, to a tree at the courthouse in the town of Graham and hanged him.
To intimidate and subjugate recently freed slaves.
At its peak the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan had 6,000,000 members. Though rumor has it that it is dying out.
Because some ku klux klan "kkk" members were cops
they used violence
The Ku Klux Klan originated in 1865 in Tennessee after the Civil War ended. Most of the Klan members consisted of former confederate soldiers.
Bill Gordon