• Known as the KKK

• Set up in 1865 after black slaves won their freedom

• Wanted to stop black Americans gaining equality

• Mostly operated in Southern states

• Terrorised black American families by intimidation and extreme violence (lynching)

• Only WASPs could join

• Membership was a secret

Also attacked:

• Jews

• Catholics

• Liberals

WASPs - White Anglo-Saxon Protestants