Many people may think that the Ku Klux Klan was not successful because of the fact that they were a group of thugs, who coerced colored people in office, bullied black residents to keep them from exercising their rights guaranteed under law, and tried to renovate a way of life that brought on the Civil War, while they hid behind masks and waited to expose themselves until nighttime. The Ku Klux Klan created a pressure, fear and hate for the African Americans among many of the southern white people. This was because the African Americans were free people and had the same rights as the white people. This angered many white people and they created groups to support their beliefs and to allow people with the same ideas to gather together and share their ideas.
The Ku Klux Klan was obviously an organization that would stop at nothing to restore white supremacy throughout the south. The KKK became the leading force behind the Democratic Party. They intimidated black voters into voting Democrat by beatings, lynching, and whippings. Black's and people who supported blacks were tortured in the most inhumane manner, many times resulting in murder. Eventually The KKK became so violent that it was dismantled. However it had already accomplished one of its main goals to leave the Blacks with no power and the southern upper class and plantation owners' back into power. Even though the black's had laws