The Origins of the KKK and its First Death in the 1870s

Published: Oct. 24, 2023, 11 a.m.

The Ku Klux Klan was arguably America\u2019s first organized terrorist movement. It was a paramilitary unit that arose in the South during the early years of Reconstruction. At its peak in the early 1870s, the Klan boasted many tens of thousands of...