In the south, those Democrats who most bitterly opposed equality for blacks founded the Ku Klux Klan
What an absolute pile of horse dung.
The KKK was not founded by the bolsheviks in the Dimocrap party.
The KKK was started by former Confederate Cavalry Officers in Pulaski TN, Nathan Bedford Forest was the top dog and he disbanded it 2 years after it was founded and denounced it in the US Congress because it had been hijacked by thugs.
It's STILL Hijacked by thugs. But the original history of the KKK was one of guerilla resistance to an occupying force of Yankee Carpetbaggers.
You are correct, it was founded 24 Dec 1865, by six Confederate veterans who met in the office of Judge Thomas M. Jones, viz.: James R. Crowe, Calvin E. Jones, John B. Kennedy, John C. Lester, Frank O. McCord, and Richard B. Reed.
Forrest never served, nor was he the leader at any time - he was elected in absentia and never served. The only 'official' proclomation he ever made was for it to disband, and even then, that was written by Capt. John W. Morton.