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The first KKK was founded around 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee as something of a joke by about 6 former members of the defeated Confederate army; "ludicrous initiations, the baffling of public curiosity, and the amusement for members were the only objects of the Klan." Gradually the Klan adopted a much more sinister purposes such as vigilante actions against freed slaves and the supposed restoration of White supremacy and the overthrow of the Republican state governments. The names of the 6 original founders are not clearly known.

Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former Lieutenant General in the defeated Confederate forces was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK so he often gets credit for making the organization - but he was not an original member.

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