Local Klan members wearing masks and dressed in the organization’s long white robes and hoods usually carried out their attacks at night, acting on their own but in support of the common goals of restoring white supremacy in the South. Founded in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan extended into almost every southern state by 1870.The name of the Ku Klux Klan was derived from the Greek word kyklos, meaning "circle," and the Scottish-Gaelic word "clan".

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