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The Ku Klux Klan was originally a social fraternity, organized by Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the Empire, in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865.

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The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by a group of Confederate Civil War veterans.

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There were many men who founded the Ku Klux Klan. These founders were J. Calvin Jones, John C. Lester, John B. Kennedy, James R. Crowe, Frank O. McCord, and Richard R.Reed.

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The second Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1915 by William .J. Simmons an ex-minister and promoter of fraternal orders. Its first meeting was held on stone mt.

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When was The Ku Klux Klan founded?

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