Ku Klux Klan The Ku Klux Klan has been the most organized of the many supremacy groups that came into being after the Civil War. The ill-reputed Knights of the Klan have been involved in countless incidents of human rights violations against blacks and other minority groups in America. Especially in the South, during and after the Reconstruction period, the Klan played a major part in formulating and forcefully employing many of the Jim Crow laws, that delayed black man’s true freedom f Stetson Kennedy is a native of Jacksonville, Florida where the Klan was very active. Kennedy saw first hand the wo