The Ku Klux Klan originated in 1865 from the white Southern anger over the Civil War defeat and the Reconstruction that followed. Northerners saw it as a way that the Klan could win through terrorism what they lost on the battlefield. Soon this Klan became the hooded legion whose sacred task was to fulfill the Southern dream. This dream was the old South would live again. People started to believe in this Klan and their ideals, …
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