KKK
Eddie, Alessio, Sebastian
History and Information
Many white southerners joined the organization to oppose Radical Reconstruction. They would usually whip and kill freed black men and other people that supported them. The KKK was disbanded and revived many times in the 1900s. They opposed Roman Catholics, Jews, foreigners and organized labor.
Citations
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