Why was the Ku Klux Klan ever even tolerated?
There have been two groups called the Ku Klux Klan in U.S. history. The first was started after the Civil War. The blacks of the South were freed. The former slave owners saw everything they worked for fall apart. The south seemed to be falling apart. The KKK was started to help the white population get their life back by not allowing blacks to do certain things. It was wrong, it was illegal, but they thought it was right at the time. The first group disbanded after about 35 years. The second group called the KKK was mainly interested in stopping Roman Catholics from becoming involved in governmental politics. The NAACP had very little to do with any of this. With or without them, the KKK would still exist.
