The KKK or the Klu klux Klan was a white supremacy group that was founded by six collage students shortly after the end of the civil war (1866). Klu Klux Klan members were known for wearing white costumes and masks used to conceal their identity. Currently it has around only 5000 members but in 1925 the Klan had more then 6,000,000. In the early 1900s the KKK threatened African Americans and white and black republican leaders