Ku+Klux+Klan

toc =**__The Ku Klux Klan__**= The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is a racist, anti-Semitic group that uses extreme violence to achieve its goal of racial segregation. They believe in white supremacy. More than 40 different Klan groups exist, having many chapters. There are over a hundred different Klan chapters around the country, with members and associates that may total around 5,000. = =

Formation
The Ku Klux Klan formed during the reconstruction era. Congress passed the reconstruction Acts, and a year later, in April 1868, a month after African Americans could vote in Arkansas for the first time, the Ku Klux Klan was formed. They formed because they believed blacks were inferior. They wanted to show people that whites were superior.

Nathan Bedford Forrest
Nathan Bedford Forest was born in Bedford County, Tennessee and he became a Luitenent General in the American Civil war for the Confederates. He was know as the "Grand Wizard" of the KKK. He believed the Klan was a noble an honorable group. Nathan started to dislike the Klan because their actions changed from their original purpose of a helpful and admirable group. He tried to get the Klan to disband but he died on October 29, 1877.

David C. Stephenson
Stephenson moved to Indiana, joined the Ku Klux Klan and became the most dynamic KKK leader in the United States. When Stephenson went on a trip to Hammond he assulted an eighteen year old girl. He was found guilty and had to go to jail. While Stephenson was in jail, the Indiana KKK started falling apart.

David Duke
David Duke is one of Americas most famous rascist. At the age seventeen he joined the KKK. Later he was elected Grand Wizard. He married Chloe Hardin and after ten years she divorced him. She re-married Stephon Myron, who had replaced David as Grand Wizard.

The Ku Klux Klan Today
The Ku Klux Klan is still going on today. They KKK used to have about five thousand members. Now it has whithered to about one thousand. The members of the Klan have stopped wearing white sheets. People do not like this because they are much harder to locate.

Resources
"About the Ku Klux Klan". __Anti Defamation League.__ 25 october 2008 

Garraty, John A. __The stor____y of America.__ Austin, TX: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1994

"David C. Stephenson." __Lies Across America__. 26 October 2008 

"David Duke>" __NNDB.__ 26 October 2008 

"Nathan Bedford Forrest". __Mysterious...Mishievous...Brotherhoods.__ 26 October 2008 