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... shootings attributed to it, but growing racial tolerance and a government crackdown reduced its numbers to a few thousand. We all have heard about the KKK but do we know who they are? Well… In the late 1800's The Ku Klux Klan was formed as a social club by a group of Confederate Army veterans at around 1865. A Confederate General, Nathan Bedford Forrest, was the Klan's first leader, whose title was the Grand Wizard. The group adopted the name Ku Klux Klan from the Greek word kuklos, meaning circle, and the English word clan. The clan believed in white superiority, and would often use violence and terrorization of blacks as a means of exercising this philosophized superiority. They vomited over the fact that blacks may gain rights after the civil war. Dressed in robes and sheets, Klansmen whipped and killed freedmen and their white supporters in nighttime raids. It had largely accomplished its goals by the 1870s, and gradually faded away. The second KKK arose in 1915, partly out of nostalgia for the O...