History of the United States I / Unit 16 USH1 2297 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Klan
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The idea
The Ku Klux Klan was founded in eighteen sixty-six as an oath-bound fraternal order of Confederate veterans in Tennessee, its name likely from kuklos, Greek for circle.
In practice
Its first leader, former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Where people slip
Unit 15 entry 2156 covers Forrest at Fort Pillow. The man who commanded the massacre of surrendered Black soldiers now led the Klan.
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