fear and violence
Political activity by newly freed slaves gave rise to the formation of the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1865.
The Klu Klux Klan
There were essentially three different Klans. The first, formed right after the Civil War, persecuted freed African Americans and those who supported their rights. The second, commonly called the Klan of the 1920s, also persecuted African Americans and some immigrants but also moonshiners and bootleggers. The third Klan, that of the 1950s and 1960s, persecuted African Americans and those who promoted their civil rights.
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In December of 1865 13 Confederate veterans met in Tennessee to form the Ku Klux Klan. The group called itself a social club. But the reality of the Klan was to act as a terrorist organization and attack freed Blacks and plot other types of disturbances to encourage Southerners to support laws against freed Blacks. The Klan exists to this day.
Ku Klux Klan
they used violence to prevent freed people from voting
To intimidate and subjugate recently freed slaves.
they used violence to prevent freed people from voting
The Ku Klux Klan limited the rights of African Americans by killing them. The clan also tried to force them back into slavery.
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the Klan of the 1920s always carried the American flag. When there was a revival of klan interest in the 1950s because of civil rights, the Klan began to cary the Confederate flag.