A short history of hate in the US
December 24, 1865: The Klu Klux Klan (KKK) is founded in Tennessee and led by Nathan Bedford Forrest, a slave trader and lieutenant in the Confederate Army.
1876: Democrat governor of South Carolina Ben Tillman leads an attack on black Republicans; seven are beaten to death.
1877: The start of the Jim Crow era.
1897: The Supreme Court legalises segregation in the notorious Plessy v Ferguson case with newly hatched legal principle of ...