The immune response to viral infection comprises innate and adaptive defenses. The innate response, which we have discussed previously, functions continuously in a normal host without exposure to any virus. Most viral infections are controlled by the innate immune system.
The original Ku Klux Klan was organized by ex-Confederate elements to oppose the Reconstruction policies of the radical Republican Congress and to maintain white supremacy..
1 The Ku Klux Klan was a racist group established by people who believed that white people were better and wanted to see black people remaining slaves. 2  It began in the southern states at the end of the American Civil War in 1865. The KKK discriminated against black people, Roman Catholics, Jews and Mexicans. 2  Members of the Klan often killed black people by hanging without trial (lynching) â Rope Law [Rope Law: Members of the Ku Klux Klan killed black people by hanging them without trial (lynch) and often took the law into their own hands.