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Google 'Pulaski, Tennessee December 24,1865'
History channel had a whole doc about it, but, the 'Klan' was originally a group of Confederate vets that got drunk on weekends, put the hoods on and rode around acting like 'ghosts' to scare Black people during Reconstruction.
Forrest, and the Democrats, changed ALL of that in 1869 by co-opting the group and directing them to target the original Republicans.....Black people.....to put Democrats back in power....
Yes - scare - or as some historians claim -- PRANK them ---- but they were also violently terrorizing them and killing Black folks.
Just because they put on a Costume - it's not a joke.