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Who all was involved in the founding of the KKK
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The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was founded in the aftermath of the American Civil War during the Reconstruction era. It was established in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by a group of Confederate veterans, including six men:
1. **Frank O. McCord**
2. **John C. Lester**
3. **James R. Crowe**
4. **Richard Reed**
5. **John B. Kennedy**
6. **J. Calvin Jones**
These founders originally intended the Klan to be a social club for former Confederate soldiers, but it quickly evolved into a white supremacist organization. The KKK began to endorse and engage in acts of violence and intimidation against African Americans and those who supported Reconstruction efforts.
The organization gained prominence in the late 1860s and 1870s and was characterized by its use of intimidation, terrorism, and extralegal violence to undermine African American civil rights and re-establish white supremacy in the South. Over the years, the KKK has undergone various transformations, with different iterations and revivals occurring in subsequent decades, but its foundational roots are tied to those initial founders in the post-Civil War South.
1. **Frank O. McCord**
2. **John C. Lester**
3. **James R. Crowe**
4. **Richard Reed**
5. **John B. Kennedy**
6. **J. Calvin Jones**
These founders originally intended the Klan to be a social club for former Confederate soldiers, but it quickly evolved into a white supremacist organization. The KKK began to endorse and engage in acts of violence and intimidation against African Americans and those who supported Reconstruction efforts.
The organization gained prominence in the late 1860s and 1870s and was characterized by its use of intimidation, terrorism, and extralegal violence to undermine African American civil rights and re-establish white supremacy in the South. Over the years, the KKK has undergone various transformations, with different iterations and revivals occurring in subsequent decades, but its foundational roots are tied to those initial founders in the post-Civil War South.