Nathan Bedford Forrest the K.K.K.'s first Grand Wizard

## Early Life

### Relatives

Nathan Bedford the 2nd, Nathan Bedford the 3rd, Mariam Beck Forrest, William Forrest, Fanny, John Forrest

### Occupation

Lieutenant General, KKK Grand Wizard, Freemason, businessman, slaveholder, planter

## Physical description

### Gender

male

He was born to a poor settler family consisting of 14 kids including Nathan, and their parents. In 1841 his uncle was killed by the Matlock brothers so he killed 2 of them and stabbed the other two who survived and later served in his regiment.

## Civil War & Fort Pillow Massacre

Nathan was a part of many important battles such as the Battle of Shiloh, Wilsons Raids, and the Battle of Nashville, but he also committed the Fort Pillow Massacre, while trying to take the Fort a black squad of soldiers surrendered to him but instead of taking them as POW's he ordered his men to kill them all and continued this by killing multiple Union prisoners who were mostly African Americans.

## Later Years & Death

After the war he along with James R. Crowe, Frank O. McCord, John C. Lester, Richard R. Reeds, J. Calvin Jones, and John B. Kennedy (no relation to John F. Kennedy) formed the Ku Klux Klan a White Supremacist organization that used fear and terror to get what they wanted often by lynching African Americans and politicians who support Civil Rights, Nathan later became the first Grand Wizard and under his leadership, he killed George W. Ashburn in 1868 for working with the Freemen's Bureau, he was later questioned in 1871 for his involvement with the group which denied, in 1875 he gave a speech about wanting equal rights for African Americans and White people but later stated it was fake a called a woman who gave him a bouquet before the speech "A mulatto Wench" and later died of Diabetes in 1877.

## Legacy

He is remembered today as a racist war criminal and was multiple statues of him taken down, the Ku Klux Klan the foundation he help start suffered after laws passed by Ulysses S. Grant but surged in popularity in 1915 by William Joseph Simmons, during this time Birth of a Nation was released which portraited the Klan as hero's stopping African Americans (actually white people in blackface since African Americans weren't allowed in the film industry) from attacking women, it was also the first movie shown in the White House which led to Woodrow Wilson being accused of being racist. They later surged again after World War 2 in response to the Civil Rights Movement, they were responsible for The Christmas Eve Bombing of 1951, the murder of NAACP member Medgar Evers, the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing of 1963, the Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, along with serval other murders and bombings. They later killed 5 members of a pro-communist group in 1979, and it was later revealed that K.K.K. members were in the F.B.I., today most K.K.K. members are also Neo-Nazis since they both have the same Terrible Ideology.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan\_Bedford\_Forrest\_Boyhood\_Home#/media/File:Nathan\_Bedford\_Forrest\_Boyhood\_Home.jpg
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan\_Bedford\_Forrest#Ku\_Klux\_Klan\_membership
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku\_Klux\_Klan#Second\_Klan:\_1915%E2%80%931944