The Ku Klux Klan, began as a small group of bored, young Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee. In light of Republican “carpetbaggers”, crucial state elections, and most critically, enfranchised former black slaves, the small men’s club rapidly turned violent. In one of the darkest chapters of America’s story, the KKK targeted black leaders and white Republicans such as Wade Perrin, Louis Foy, and George Ashburn. The violence became so severe that for only the second time in American history, the writ of habeas corpus was suspended in the United States. This was done by none other than the Union’s most famous general, President Ulysses S. Grant.