At the end of The Civil War, The Confederacy contemplated it's next move. Not only were former slave masters distraught with the change in their economic system, there were greater issues for former overseers, slave trackers, and non-slave staff for each plantation who had fought in the war: the new prospect of poverty.
As it was recognized that these newly unemployed individuals would have to compete with former slaves, who possessed greater vocational skills, for jobs, an organization formed: The Klu Klux Klan.
The KKK professed to be God-fearing White men appointed with the responsibility of returning the United States back to its former "glory" under pure White rule.
With the addition of former slave owners (also plantation owners) into their ranks, the KKK became an organized threat to all those who did not agree with their agenda.
After years of night raids and terror campaigns against Blacks, the Federal Government was compelled to crackdown on the organization. This forced the strategists of the KKK to restructure their overall strategy. The results: a greater emphasis on taking over political positions of power (including the criminal justice system), educational administration, and influence in the private sector.
They appeared to disappear due to federal government pressure but the truth is that they were focusing on their new strategy and moving further back into the shadows.
Once positions of power were secured, the plan was to change laws and policies that would eventually work against Black and other minority interests. Also, it would give them protection and cover necessary to systematically continue terrorizing Blacks without interference from the Feds because everything would be justified by the "law".
To remove suspicion from them and their activities, the KKK needed another focal point to place blame. With the help of church clergy, they created propaganda about two proposed corrupt and racist organizations who were bent on world domination:
THE ILLUMINATI and JEWISH ZIONISTS!
This propaganda has helped perpetuate the greatest illusion in modern history! With society, specially Blacks, focusing on the lure of The Illuminati and The Jews, The KKK has been left to wreak havoc in every state of the Union!
Please open your eyes to this decades old scheme. If we do not filter these destructive agents out of our civil and military, we will implode and they will have their opening to regain control of local territories throughout the United States!
Please be aware the KKK isn't the only White Supremacist groups actively conspiring to use positions of influence for their agendas, they're just one of the older organizations.
Check out the following link about the FBI's Domestic Terrorists Threat list and reports on White Supremacists:
http://m.fbi.gov/#http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/may/extremism_052212/extremism_052212
