A short history of hate in the US

The Ku Klux Klan march in full regalia on the Mall in Washington DC in 1925

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 ...