So as you can tell by the title of this, you know how were talking about, now I'm gonna have a lot of Images of them in this video, and a lot of people have different views on them so do I, I see them as bad people for obvious reasons, but today will be going over the History of The Ku Klux Klan better known as The KKK, very controversial group with a long history that started in the Civil War and that they are literally taught in my schools or just mentioned so we're gonna be staying with there actives From the Civil war to the Civil Rights movements (Because there mentioned the most in the card), so let's not make this long and from The Black Man Section from Stories of America Cards.

Also one more thing if you get offended in some way by this, they just don't read or watch this, for those still here let's get on with the History.

(Who was The Ku Klux Klan?)

The Ku Klux Klan also known as The KKK, is an American white supremacist, right-wing terrorist, and hate group, they primary target are African Americans, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Catholics, and Native Americans as well as immigrants, leftists, homosexuals, Muslims, and atheists, (That's a lot of people to hate in my option).

(The Grand Dragons of Violence)

As they rode through the night in their hooded white robes, the members of the Ku Klux Klan inspired fear among the blacks and former slaves who were their targets.

Known as the KKK, the Klan remains a group of secret societies with strange rituals that came into being in the South shortly after the end of the Civil War.

The original Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by former Confederate soldiers, Their organization consisted of a chief executive (the Grand Wizard) and states (Realms) ruled by governors (Grand Dragons).

When the Klansmen saw that their night rides, cross burnings, and other activities frightened the superstitious ex-slaves, they began to engage in deliberte intimidation, Their hooded costumes provided them anonymity, which protected them from liability for criminal acts.

Because the South was then in the midst of its bitter Reconstruction period, the Klan gradually widened its scope and purpose to include the maintenance of white supremacy and the overthrow of local Reconstruction governments.

By 1871 its growth in size and violent activity aroused Congress to pass the Ku Klux Klan Acts in an attempt to stop the Klansmen, As a result, their central organization was officially disbanded, although many local groups survived.

And, while many of its members had been arrested, the Klan, through intimidation, did accomplish its major objectives: whites again controlled local governments in the south, blacks no longer voted and despised carpetbaggers from the North had been expelled.

In November 1915 the Klan was revived by William J. Simmons, The new KKK adopted rituals, costumes, and beliefs similar to the original Klan, but it added Jews, Catholics and Immigrants to its list of those groups whom it wished to intimidate.

The second Klan, which claimed some five million members in the 1920s, burned crosses, abducted and abused minority group members, and generally resorted to violence to achieve goals. But the excesses again aroused public outrage, and by the 1930s membership was reduced to about 9,000.

In 1944 the U.S government assessed the Klan more than $500,000 in back taxes and the organization was formally disbanded in order to avoid legal action.

Later, during the Civil Rights movement that followed the U.S Supreme Court's ruling on school desegregation in 1954, KKK membership picked up, although it never achieved the great numbers or power it boasted after the Civil War.

(Goatman's Bridge)

So here's a little ghost story tied to the Klan, this story is mentioned in Ghost Adventures, Episode 18 of Season 15 of the Show.

The Story goes that in the 1930s or 1938 (From another source I read). An African American goat herder by the name of Oscar Washburn, was Lynch by The KKK, because he put a sign on the bridge that you may know as the goatman's bridge, yes that bridge!

So the sign said "This way to the Goat Man".

And the local klansman did not like it, so they did what their group does best, lynching people.

But as they did so and went to like look at the remains of what they have done, surprisingly and Mysterious, Oscar's body was gone and not on the rope that he used to Lynch him, (also there were no signs that his body dropped in the Water by the way)

And so after that with nothing to know what happened they burned down his house and killed his family.

It says that his ghost haunts the goatman's bridge to this day, as a half human half goat vengeful Spirit or something much worse.

(Ending)

And that is the History of the Ku Klux Klan, from the story of america card, this card happened to be recommend to me and i decided made a video on it, so if you want to recommend a card you want to be make a video on next or the topic I'll look for it but I have the card in order to make and add it in my list of videos to make in a order, i can pick two cards at a time so be sure to add it in the comments and the category too would also be helpful.

And so I'll see you next time when I make another one.