The Ku Klux Klan, Its Origin Growth and Disbandment

At first, the KKK was mostly away for bored young white veterans to drink and play pranks on themselves and others. The relatively good-hearted pranks against their fellow white people soon gave way to distinctly less fun pranks against black people. In his book, Ku Klux Klan, its origin growth and disbandment, John Lester claims that the Klan spread almost by accident at first, essentially as an old, timey meme.