Term Paper “The Ku Kux Klan was formed as a social club by a group of Confederate Army Veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee around 1865. A Confederate General, Nathan Bedford Forrest, was the klan’s first leader, whose title was Grand Wisard. White superiority was the philosophy of the Klan. And they would often use violence and terrorization of blacks as means of exercising this philosophied superiority. The Klan hated the idea of blacks getting any rights …showed first 75 words of 1733 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1733 total…the bill.” Because of the social, political, and the economical factors, the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920’s stayed alive and kept killing and terrorizing all the people it considered it’s enemies. If it weren’t for the increase of Immigration, or the Klan members getting involved in politics or even people paying money to became a member, the Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan would have died alot sooner than it did.