So.......if a man could read and speak Latin and Greek......it meant he was educated......i had a Haitian friend........whose father was a lawyer and could speak and read both Latin and Greek.......if u look at our legal system.......and its lingo.......legalese......u will c things referred to in Latin or Greek.....

Creation and naming

A cartoon threatening that the KKK would lynch carpetbaggers. From the Independent Monitor, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1868.

Six Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee created the original Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, during the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War.^[37][38] The name was formed by combining the Greek kyklos (κύκλος, circle) with clan.^[39] The group was known for a short time as the "Kuklux Clan". The Ku Klux Klan was one of a number of secret, oath-bound organizations using violence, which included the Southern Cross in New Orleans (1865) and the Knights of the White Camelia(1867) in Louisiana.^[40]