The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is a white supremacist organization that has a long and bloody history in the United States. The group is responsible for lynchings, bombings, and other acts of violence against African Americans, Jews, immigrants, and other minority groups.
The KKK was founded in 1865 by a group of Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee. The organization's original goal was to terrorize African Americans and prevent them from exercising their newly acquired rights as citizens. The KKK quickly spread throughout the South, and by the end of the 19th century, it had become a powerful force in politics and society.
The KKK's reign of terror continued for decades, but it eventually began to decline in the early 20th century. The organization was revived in the 1950s and 1960s by a new generation of white supremacists, and it continues to operate today, although its membership is much smaller than it once was.