Apparently according to some here he was the driving force behind the Klan, but it was a “kinder, gentler” Klu Klux Klan that only planted roadside flowers, picked up trash, and read newspapers to the residents at the old folks home...;-)
So very true. Read the testimony from the congressional investigations: the Klansmen of Reconstruction were a bunch of murderous terrorists who sought to overturn what they could not accomplish on the battlefield or at that ballot box: The perpetual subjugation of black Americans.
His men at Fort Pillow, like the Nazis of Malmedy, the bombers of the Marine barracks in Lebanon, and the hijackers of Flight 77, all have on thing in common: they murdered innocent American servicemen in cold blood.
I guess, judging by the Klan apologists here, since they were black American servicemen it doesn’t really count as an atrocity.
No worries, though, if the Forrest license plate is torpedoed, you can always lobby for a James Earl Ray one.