10. Meanwhile, The Ku Klux Klan Grew In Power
The KKK, as most people refer to it, was a white supremacist group whose sole mission was to subjugate African Americans by any means necessary. The Klan formed in 1865, with the end of the Civil War, and soon spread to every state of the former Confederacy.
One of the favorite tactics of the KKK was lynching, in which an African American would be carried away and usually tortured before being executed. Klan members sent a strong message to any African Americans in the community: we don’t want you here.
