The First Generation Of The Ku Klux Klan

The First generation of the KKK, formally known as Klu Klux Klan, was originally found by six Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee on December 24, 1865, while the South was going through a reconstruction after the Civil War. Ku Klux Klan was derived from the Greek word kyklos, meaning "circle," and the Scottish-Gaelic word "clan," which was chosen for the sake of alliteration. Controlled by a number of philosophized white racial superiority, the group employed violence which led to pushing the Reconstrution back and its enfranchisement of African Americans. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who's a Former Confederate General, was the KKK's first grand wizard. During 1869, Forrest tried to end the Ku Klux Klan after he obtained knowledge of the
Republicans organized militia units in a few Southern states to break up the Klan. The Ku Klux Act was passed in 1871 by congress, giving President Ulysses S. Grant the authority to use military force to suppress the KKK. The Ku Klux Act resulted in nine counties in South Carolina placed under martial law and thousands of members placed under arrest. By 1882, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Ku Klux Act as an unconstitutional Act, but by that time Reconstrution had ended and the KKK had faded
Most of the founders for the second KKK came from a small organization called the Knights of Mary Phagan. In 1921, the Ku Klux Klan started to develop a modern business system of recruiting and grew across the nation at a time of prosperity. Its membership grew fast in cities, and spread out in the South to the Midwest and West. The second generation of the KKK preached "One Hundred Percent Americanism" and demanded the purification of politics, which led to calling for strict morality and better enforcement of prohibition. By the 1920's, the KKK developed a women's support group that involved in many activities such as parades, cross lighting, lectures, rallies, and boycotts of local businesses owned by Catholic and Jews. In 1921, the KKK bought a struggling Baptist university in Atlanta called Lanier University. Doing this gave hope to the KKK to preach its "pure 100 percent Americanism," but shortly after its beginning, enrollment was dismal, and the school closed after the first year of Klan ownership Their official rhetoric focused on the threat of the Catholic Church. This klan also participated in burning a Latin cross to show a symbol of intimidation. The cross became a representation of the Klan's Christian Message. From 1924-1930 the second KKK