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Nathan Bedford Forrest, American general and KKK leader (born 1821)

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Nathan Bedford Forrest

Confederate States Army general and Ku Klux Klan leader (1821–1877)

Nathan Bedford Forrest was an American slave trader, active in the lower Mississippi River valley, who served as a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. Forrest was elected to lead the post-Civil War Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan as its first and only…
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Ku Klux Klan

American white supremacist terrorist hate group

The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to KKK or Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the devastated South. Various historians have characterized the Klan as America's…
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October 29

Day of the year

October 29 is the 302nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 63 days remain until the end of the year.
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