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Origin of the Ku Klux Klan in Reconstruction Era Tennessee
In 1865 six young Tennessee men formed a club that evolved into the Ku Klux Klan, a secret group rooted in Pulaski and Tennessee leadership under Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. The piece traces early rituals, costumes, names, and the Klan’s shift from playful secrecy to a weaponized force during Reconstruction, with cultural echoes and era-specific anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Judgees
J. Calvin
Jones
John Lester
John’ Bedy
James
R.we
Frank O. McCord
R. Reed
Ku Klan
Comley F. Horn
Nashville
Southern Berman
Houghton In Company
Foran
Horn
Les Committee
Tand Serbe
Ku Klux Klan
Pulaski
Klan
Giles County
Ku Klux Movement
Tennessee
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Invisible Empire
South
Ku Klux
Mr. Horn
Mississippi
A. W. Cummings
Spartanburg
S. C
Grant
the Spartan
Cummings
George Meade
Gettysburg
Augusta