What's the deal with the Reconstruction?

The Reconstruction era was a time in American history where the south had to be rebuilt and regoverned because everything they had during the Civil War needed to be rebuilt and/edited. It was right after the civil war, and it wasa time to change the South. One of the first attempts to establish order in the south was the Freedmans bureau, but that went bad, because the bureau was supposed to give protection to the blacks seeking it [with the help of the government] but the government wasn't helping. It was working at first when they started putting the blacks into governor positions and stuff, but when the Union armed pulled out, that all went down the drain.

http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/kkk/intro.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=4&item=KKK
The KKK was joined during the Reconstruction period, and  they are still going on. They have made lead-way for other white-supremicists around the country. The klan has become widespread, and has even become mobile on the internet. The klans are now cooperating with the neo-Nazi groups.