Playboy Interview: Robert Shelton

Playboy Interview: Robert SheltonConceived in 1865 by a band of idle young Confederate veterans, the Ku Klux Klan began as a harmless social club--complete with such fraternal folderol as secret words, mysterious rites and outlandish costumes made from bedsheets and pillowcases. When these juvenile mischief-makers discovered that their nocturnal frolics frightened superstitious Negroes, however, the fun turned ugly, and the Ku Klux Klan (derived from the Greek word kyklos, meaning circle) quickl...