GCSE Bitesize: The 1920s overview. Immigration in The 1920s. Prohibition: Home. The 1920s Summary & Analysis. The Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s . Fatal Flood . WGBH American Experience. Library of Congress A speech given by LeRoy Percy convinced the citizens of Greenville to support a resolution condemning the Klan The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by ex-Confederate soldiers and other Southerners opposed to Reconstruction after the Civil War. In the waning years of Reconstruction the Klan disbanded. Nearly 50 years later, in 1915, "Colonel" William Joseph Simmons, revived the Klan after seeing D. W. In its second incarnation, the Klan moved beyond just targeting blacks, and broadened its message of hate to include Catholics, Jews and foreigners. Members of the KKK. Their message struck a cord, and membership in the Klan ballooned in the 1920s. In the 1920s, the Klan moved in many states to dominate local and state politics.
But when the Klan came to recruit in the town of Greenville, Mississippi, LeRoy Percy, moved to keep the Klan out of his town.