The name Ku Klux Klan was used by various extremist organizations in the 19th century in the United States, which promoted xenophobia and the superiority of the white race. In addition to homophobia, racism and anti-communism, such organizations are characterized by the use of violence and intimidation as a technique of intimidation towards people who were frowned upon by them.
The first organization was created after the civil war in the United States in 1865, its founders were 6 war veterans, who were unhappy with the situation of the town they came from (Pulaski) and the result that said war had had. The name is derived from the Latin "kýlos" which means "circle" then klan was added in honor of the Scottish family groups. In its beginnings the clan was founded as a Social Club, which focused on being an institutionof a democratic humorous character, who gave rituals and sermons where the center of the meeting was a person humiliated by them. The members went on nights out in town in costumes made of sheets, in order to scare the villagers, but later in the reconstruction period their activities became much more extreme, focusing on the freed slaves, the scalawags (pejorative term used to name Southerners who joined the Republican Party) and carpetbaggers (a pejorative term, denoting Northerners who moved to the southern states).
The KKK (ku klux klan) quickly spread throughout the southern United States, causing chaos and turning its anger against top Republican leaders of any race, to the point of murdering people. Between 1866 and 1867 it was common for members of the clan to invade the religious meetings of the black community, their homes were also broken into, with the purpose of stealing firearms, having as an excuse, to disarm the black people as they represented a danger to society. By 1867 in Nashville a meeting was organized with the people who supported the KKK in order to organize in all the states, districts and counties of the country. The Ku Klux Klan was dissolved in 1869 by Nathan Bedford Forrest(politician sympathetic to the KKK), by dissolution, arguing that the organization had deviated from its original objectives and that it had become a danger to the public peace.
After 45 years of the dismantling of the first klan, the second KKK emerged in 1915, its resurgence was encouraged by the influence of the media, who promoted various events such as the rape of a young woman by a Jew who was lynched by a mob after his trial, also the premiere of the movie "The Rise of a Nation " where the old klan was exalted, according to its founder William Joseph Simmons the objectives of the organization were similar to the original KKK, which were, protect the weak from the violent and help those who suffer, defend the law of the United States and help the proper functioning of the laws.
The murders and lynchings of black people, Jews, Catholics or any member of groups rejected by the klan were some of the practices that characterized him. The abolition of this second KKK was mainly due to the opposition made against it by a large number of people, this refusal was increased when one of the members of the organization was involved in an accusation of rape against a young woman, all this caused the descent of the organization to its total collapse.
