And it is through its violence and the violence of a number of its cohort organizations that the Reconstruction process was undermined and overthrown in 1877 in the South. Eric Foner: The Klan is ...

Many Northerners, disgusted by Klan violence, lent their support to the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave the vote to black men in every state, and the First Reconstruction Act of 1867, which placed ...

The Reconstruction era and the period of economic ... elections and intervened to prevent fraud or coercion by the Ku Klux Klan and other white-supremacist groups. At the same time, federal ...