when and why was the kkk formed
The Ku Klux Klan formed due to anger and fear from the retaliation  of the newly freed slaves to the white community in the South.  Member of the KKK used preemptive and cruâ¦el measure to ensure that  Blacks would not dare think of rising up or retaliating.
Ku Klux Klan was founded by some veterans of the Confederate War in 1865. Their goals was to locate freed slaves to murder and rape them to restore white supremacy after the Eâ¦mancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863.