Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is a name given to the fraternal organizations in the United States which has advocated the white supremacy, anti-Semitism, racism, anti-Catholicism, and nativism consisting of members both in the past as well as the future. The life of Klan's first started on 1866 and was linked directly to the Democratic Party. Founded by veterans of the Confederate Army, its main purpose was to resist Reconstruction, and it focused as much on intimidating "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags" as on putting down the freed slaves.
