The Ku Klux Klan popularly known as the KKK emerged during the 1920’s. The KKK was a secret society which then grew up to a big driving force reversing the federal government’s Reconstruction. They all were whites of middle class who were racists.
They were terrorizing the Afro-Americans, Republicans by murdering them and causing destruction to their properties. They brain washed the fellow white Americans to believe that the KKK was doing the best by conducting pageants and social gatherings. Hence it gained its utmost popularity drawing many people towards them.
