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This was a group of white Southerners who formed in 1865 with the primary purpose of terrorizing formers slaves and resisting Reconstruction-era governments.

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On December 24, 1865 in Pulaski, TN, General Forrest and a group of former Confederate soldiers founded the Ku Klux Klan as a way of resisting reconstruction and terrorizing African-Americans.

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