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...main objectives were to keep the black people out of the government. Congress passed the Ku Klux act, it became law on April 20, 1871. This act gave the president power to interfere with some of the southern states ruling on stuff about the Klan. About a year after this act was passed the Ku Klux Klan practically disappeared. About forty-five years later it was started up again by a man named William J. Simmons, who was a preacher at the time. He was influenced by a book that a man named Thomas Dixon wrote. Once the Klan rose up again they gained an opponent, the (NAACP). The Ku Klux Klan tried to intimidate them by having a huge rally in Atlanta. After this rally the Klan became much more violent, anybody that didn’t look or act like them would be killed. In November 1922 David C. Stephenson was elected to be the new Klan’s Imperial Wizard. Under his new leadership the Klan grew rapidly. In the early 1920s many Klansmen were elected to positions in political power. Many of them were state officials in Texas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Oregon and Maine. By the time it was 1925 there were at least 4 million Klan members. Even when one of the Klan members did get arrested for serious crim...