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KKK members.1865-1870'erne: 550.0001920: 4.000.0001924: 6.000.0001930: 30.0001980: 5.0002008: 6.000Today: 5.000 The First KKK Six Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee created the original Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, during theReconstruction of the South after the Civil War.The original Ku Klux Klan was organized by ex-Confederate elements to oppose the Reconstruction policies of the radical Republican Congress and to maintain "white supremacy." After the Civil War, when local government in the South was weak or nonexistent and there were fears of black outrages and even of an insurrection, informal vigilante organizations or armed patrols were formed in almost all communities. These
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