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.