ahistorical the initial kkk after the civil war was founded by former and now unemployed slave catchers/overseers these men would also go on to form the police forces after reconstruction ended and the union military left.
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Yeah, I think part of the confusion arises from the distinction btwn 1st and 2nd Klans. I suspect when ppl think of Klan-police ties it's usually stuff from the 2nd/3rd which could be more accurately described as arising from the police state of the Jim Crow south
They were all called the KKK but weren't all direct continuations of each other. The first started right after the civil war in 1865 and disbanded in the early 1870s due to persecution by the feds (this ultimately didn't stop segregation, ofc) the second was founded by admirers of the first in 1915.
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