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jan 1, 1866 - Founded

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Founded in 1866, Ku Klux Klan extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks.

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jan 1, 1866
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~ 159 years ago