Foster McTeague - The KKK died during the Reconstruction period 1868-76. I didn't say Forest didn't attack blacks. He did but his primary target were really carpetbaggers from the north. If the blacks supported them, they too were targeted. Even your Wikipedia stated that the Khan disappeared by the time the Reconstruction period ended.  But the rebirth in the early 20th century was none of Forest's doing. Interestingly, wasn't that period we also saw many of the Confederate monuments being put up all over, same time that the reboot KKK came about on the American scene. Interestingly, KKK have always been the foot soldiers of the Democratic Party. Their rebirth in the 20th century came during the period of President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat and one of the most racist Presidents we ever had in recent history. (He could make Trump look like an alt-left radical...)