Joshua D Broome The Ku Klux Klan During Reconstruction The Ku Klux Klan and other intimidators like the Louisiana Knights of the White Camellia, spread rapidly throughout the south as an answer to radical reconstruction. Nathan Bedford Forest formed the Ku-Klux-Klan in Tennessee during 1866. Forest, a former Confederate general and slave trader, was the Ku-Klux-Klan’s first Imperial Wizard. This essay will weigh the evidence supported by the traditional view, that is, the Ku Klux …showed first 75 words of 2614 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2614 total…Klan was a violent and disrespectful organization set on overthrowing rule by negros, scalawags, and carpetbaggers. This essay looked at the horrific acts committed by the Klan during the period of radical reconstruction and questioned the morality of such acts. One fact remains, the Ku Klux Klan was a terrorist organization, which hindered social and political integration: that if these evil men had let congress win the “New” south would have been a better place.