What was Ku Klux Klan during the civil war?

a group of people who usually live in the souther states who dont like blacks and perform strange rituals. and the civil war should explain their role during it.hope i helped
What was Ku Klux Klan during the civil war?
Nothing.


The KKK wasn't formed until after the Civil War.





The American Civil War was fought between the northern half of the United States and the southern half from 1861 to 1865. This war ended in 1865 and resulted in the freeing of Black slaves.


The Klu Klux Klan, a white supremacist group, was immediately formed the next year in 1866.
What was Ku Klux Klan during the civil war?
Elizabeth is correct. The Ku Klux Klan wasn't formed until AFTER the Civil War by certain Southerners who were damned if they were going to actually allow the Blacks to feel "free."


They were the ones behind Jim Crow, Lynchings, all that nasty stuff.


Watch "Mississippi Burning."
Reply:The Ku Klux Klan did not exist until after the civil war.It was started by Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1866
Reply:There was no KKK then. The original Klan was formed in and in response to Reconstruction, and died a natural death at the end of Reconstruction. The current Klan has its origins in the early twentieth century.
Reply:As above, but as I admire NBF's Civil War career, let me just add that Forest got out after a few years-the KKK was too much for him!





Check out the chapter in "Freakanomics" about the breaking of the KKK through the radio broadcasts of "Superman".