Ku Klux Klan,
the most notorious of terrorist groups that arose in the
Reconstruction
Era to uphold white supremacy and
Democratic party
rule in the South.
Ku Klux Klan,
the most notorious of terrorist groups that arose in the
Reconstruction
Era to uphold white supremacy and
Democratic party
rule in the South.
- Leonard J. Moore
A version of this article originally appeared in The Oxford Companion to United States History.
