This is not true.
This has REPEATEDLY been disproven.
Frequent claims that the Democratic Party of the 19th century either started the Civil War or formed the KKK are false, according to historians.
www.usatoday.com
"The KKK was founded as the military arm of the Democratic Party."
"Although the names stayed the same, the platforms of the two parties reversed each other in the mid-20th century, due in large part to white ‘Dixiecrats’ flight out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964," she said. "By then, the Democratic Party had become the party of ‘reform,’ supporting a variety of ‘liberal’ causes, including civil rights, women’s rights, etc. whereas this had been the banner of the Republican Party in the nineteenth century."
False. The Ku Klux Klan was not formed by the Democratic Party. THE FACTS: The Klan first emerged after the Civil War in an effort to intimidate Southern blacks to stay out of politics and to exploit their labor.
apnews.com
The organization of the Ku Klux Klan coincided with the beginning of the second phase of post-
Civil War Reconstruction,
put into place by the more radical members of the Republican Party in Congress. After rejecting President
Andrew Johnson’s relatively lenient Reconstruction policies, in place from 1865 to 1866, Congress passed the Reconstruction Act over the presidential veto.
