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==First KKK==

==First KKK==

[[Image:Artoon.jpg|right|200px|thumb|A political cartoon depicting the KKK and the Democratic party as continuations of the Confederacy]]

[[Image:Artoon.jpg|right|200px|thumb|A political cartoon depicting the KKK and the Democratic party as continuations of the Confederacy]]

The first KKK was an unorganized movement of white Southerners who opposed [[Reconstruction]] in the late 1860s by inflicting violence against black leaders and white Republicans.  Local Klans were entirely separate; there was no organization or coordination above the county level, and no county or state officers.  The Klan was broken up by President [[Ulysses S. Grant]] and the U.S. Army using the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act). It had disappeared by 1872, although similar violent groups persisted in some localities around the South.

The first KKK was an movement of white Southerners who opposed [[Reconstruction]] in the late 1860s, inflicting violence against black leaders and white Republicans.  Local Klans were entirely separate; there was no organization or coordination above the county level, and no county or state officers.  The Klan was broken up by President [[Ulysses S. Grant]] and the U.S. Army using the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act). It had disappeared by 1872, although similar violent groups persisted in some localities around the South.

==Second KKK: The 1920s==

==Second KKK: The 1920s==