The Ku Klux Klan: The Rise of Evil (TRIH ep 654, part 1)

1865 · Resource

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the birth and early growth of the Ku Klux Klan in the turbulent years after the American Civil War. They explain how the first Klan emerged in Pulaski, Tennessee, in the summer of 1866 as a loosely organised social club of young white veterans, then rapidly transformed into a violent, white‑supremacist paramilitary movement.