TIL Confederate cavalry general Nathan Bedford Forrest was the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. He quit the group less than two years later. In 1875 he was invited to give a speech before an organization of black Southerners advocating racial reconciliation and equality. (Speech in Comments)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest#Ku_Klux_Klan_Membership



Submitted March 27, 2015 at 06:46PM by huphelmeyer http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/30hl1e/til_confederate_cavalry_general_nathan_bedford/