Did high-ranking mason, Albert Pike found the Ku Klux Klan?
No. There is no documentation that would suggest that Masonic author, Albert Pike, was ever a member of the Ku Klux Klan., much less a founder or organizer. The 19th century Ku Kux Klan was originally organized as a Confederate veterans social club in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866. It was structured into a vehicle for Southern white resistance to Radical Reconstruction at a convention in Nashville, Tennessee in 1867 under the leadership of Grand Wizard, Nathan Bedford Forrest. In 1869 Forrest ordered the group disbanded, largely as a result of excessive violence. Local branches remained active, prompting the U.S. Congress to pass the Force Act of 1870 and the Ku Klux Klan Act in 1871. By the time the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Klan unconstitutional in 1882, it had practically disappeared. The growth, decline and transformation of the 20th century Klan has no connection with the original Klan, other than the name. Confederate Lieutenant General and Klan First Grand Wizard, Nathan Bedf
