Ku Klux Klan

• 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

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Also attacked:

• Jews
• Catholics
• Liberals

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==WASPs== - White Anglo-Saxon Protestants

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