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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..
John Ellen, Brisbane, Australia. I'm not sure how true it is, but I was once told that Ku Klux Klan was chosen because it sounds like a rifle bolt being cocked. Adrian Hogg, Ponteland, England. The name come from the Greek name Kuklos which means circle, and Klan was added. The members says it means White Racial Brotherhood. The Klan was established in 1865 in Tennessee, after the civil war ended. The founder was Nathan Bed Forrest, a soldier from the south.