Founded in 1866 by six veterans of the Confederate Army (J. Calvin Jones, Frank O. McCord, John B. Kennedy, John C. Lester, James R. Crow, and Richard R. Reed)
basic information
Alabama and Mississppi targeted the most
Terror by lynching and firebombings targeted at African Americans
At its peak (1920), there were 3 million members
There were three generations of The KKK
Statistics
They killed 3,446 African Americans over a course of 86 years
150 chapters (branches) currently
In 1920 (the peak of the KKK) there were about 4 million - 5 million members