History of the United States II / Unit 1 USH2 0026 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Ku Klux Klan
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The idea
Confederate veterans founded the Ku Klux Klan in eighteen sixty-six at Pulaski, Tennessee, and the former general Nathan Bedford Forrest came to lead it.
In practice
Arson, whipping and murder used to keep freed people from voting.
Where people slip
The Klan began as a fraternal order and became a terrorist organisation. By eighteen sixty-eight it had spread to nearly every former Confederate state.
Your place on the trail
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