Klux Klan
a secret American founded in 1866 at Pulaski, Tenn., originally for purposes of amusement only, "regulators." The proceedings of the soon developed into an association of feature of the determined struggle to Ku-Klux in the Southern States are one withhold from the emancipated slaves the right of voting. The outrages and murders which convulsed the country in 1868-1869 ended in the calling out of troops and the formal disbandment of the society in March of the latter year; but its name and often its disguises were used for years to cover the violence of political desperadoes.
North American Indians, also called