United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.500181865/1930The Ku Klux Klan was a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists during the Reconstruction, whose goals included political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern Blacks after the Civil War.Image depicting a Ku Klux Klan member in full costume, sitting atop horse during the nighttime. He wears a long dark robe and a tall, pointed hood. Dark cloth is draped over the horse. Several wooden buildings stand behind him, and the moon illuminates the scene.The Ku Klux Klan was a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists during the Reconstruction, whose goals included political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern Blacks after the Civil War. This romanticized vision of the Klan was celebrated in popular novels and laid the foundation for the more openly organized Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the second Ku Klux Klan, founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1915.image/jpegTourgée, Albion Winegar, 1838-1905. The Invisible Empire. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ku-klux-klan-reconstruction-eraForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ku-klux-klan-reconstruction-eraForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaKu Klux Klan (19th cent.)White supremacy movements--United StatesTerrorists--Southern StatesHorses--Southern StatesBuildings--Southern StatesCostume--Southern StatesMoonKu Klux KlanStillImage