fear and violence
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was the primary group that used fear and violence to deny rights to freed men and women in the United States, particularly during the Reconstruction era following the Civil War. Formed in the 1860s, the Klan employed terror tactics, including lynching and intimidation, to suppress African American civil rights and maintain white supremacy. Their actions aimed to undermine the legal and social advancements made by freed slaves and prevent them from exercising their newly granted rights.
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.
they freed slaves or something like that
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
In 1871, the United States Congress passed the Ku Klux Klan Act, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1871. This legislation aimed to combat the violent actions of the Ku Klux Klan and other groups that sought to undermine the civil rights of African Americans during Reconstruction. It allowed federal authorities to intervene in states where civil rights were being violated and provided for legal action against individuals participating in conspiracies to deny those rights.
The Ku Klux Klan limited the rights of African Americans by killing them. The clan also tried to force them back into slavery.