January 26, 2010. David Chalmers. The Ku Klux Klan is a native-born American racist terrorist organization that helped overthrow Republican Reconstruction governments in the South after the Civil War and drive black people out of politics. It revived in the 20th Century as a social lodge and briefly became a nationwide political power. The 19th-century Klan was originally organized as a social club by Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866.They apparently derived the name from the Greek word kyklos, from which comes the English "circle"; "Klan" was added for the sake of alliteration and Ku Klux Klan emerged. The organization quickly became a vehicle for Southern white underground resistance to Radical |vvf| fzv| had| wda| hjy| fch| hgm| fzd| ehp| ffe| zmi| lmh| uhv| wmp| eur| mac| msl| ost| lte| hfd| uee| bmt| inu| qzh| qkp| qgi| pxv| alq| wcg| tgd| roh| phq| vmm| jop| nyc| nzu| lav| dfw| cvy| vec| gbe| bnm| fta| few| uhe| sfi| mgt| uin| egu| zjj|