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The Ku Klux Klan was not made for what it is known for to do today. The Klan was made by six ex-confederates, who were known as the Pulaski Six, who were: Captain John G. ... They made the Ku Klux Klan to relieve themselves of boredom and idleness. ... The next evening they made names for the Klan and for the Klan members and made rules. The Pulaski six wanted the Klan to be a secret so they moved their meetings to a forest almost outside of Pulaski. “The original version of the Klan was a little more then half-a-dozen idle young men riding the roads around Pulaski, providing spontaneous entertainment for themselves and their neighbors” (Sims, 36). The Klan was made to amuse the former soldiers, who made it. ... By 1866, the Klan went from a simple organization made to amuse people to a politically motivated evil group. Klan members would ride through black community wearing their Klan uniforms to make the superstitious freedmen believe that they were being hunted by ghosts.