article_snippet: a Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest ran a cotton farm, trafficked slaves in Tennessee via a Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest
article_snippet: a Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK soon after the anti-black group formed in Tennessee in 1866.
article_snippet: a Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest was part of an off-shoot of the clan that opted for violence when According to Andrew Ward, author of the Civil War account River Run Red, Forrest found black people would not voluntarily return to a state of slavery. '
article_snippet: In the spring of 1867,' Ward writes, 'a Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest and a Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest dragoons launched a campaign of midnight parades; "ghost" masquerades; and "whipping" and even "killing Negro voters and white Republicans, to scare blacks off voting and running for office.
article_snippet: a Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of the richest men in the South before America's Civil War.
article_snippet: a Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest owned a cotton plantation and numerous slaves, trafficked via a Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest own slave-trading business in Memphis.
article_snippet: When America's Civil War ended, a Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest joined the KKK and became the KKK first leader.