Ku-Klux Klau,

Ku-Klux Klau, a secret organisation which, said to have been founded in 1866 at Pulaski, Tennessee, originally for purposes of amusement only, soon developed into an association of 'regulators,' and became notorious for the lawless deeds of violence performed in its name. The proceedings of the Ku-Klux in the southern states are only one feature of the determined struggle to withhold from the emancipated slaves the right of voting. The outrages and murders which convulsed the country in 1868-69 ended in the calling out of troops and the formal disbandment of the society in March of the latter year; but its name and often its disguises were used for years after to cover the violence of political desperados.