SMDH STAY ALERT STAY ALIVE HOSEA 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge......... Kuklos adelphon (bka Ku Klux Klan aka kappa alpha) Kuklos Adelphon (also known as the old K.A., Kappa Alpha, or Kuklos Adelphon of the Southern States) was a college fraternity widespread throughout the Southern states of the United States in the pre-Civil war period. Its name means Circle of Brothers. Some sources state that the group was organized in 1812 by four members of the Phi Beta Kappa Wikipedia Kuklos Adelphon was a fraternity founded at the University of North Carolina in 1812. It was also known as old Kappa Alpha, K.A., Kappa Alpha, Circle of Brothers and the Alpha Society.[1] The organization quickly expanded throughout the Southern United States, not only on college campuses but also cities where alumni settled. The society began to decline during the 1850s and disappeared altogether after the Civil War.[2] The group was at its height, as far as its collegiate presence was concerned, by the spring of 1855, when local college politics at the University of Alabamacaused a rift at its chapter there. A minority faction of the chapter disclosed the secrets of the order, leading to chapter dissolution, as well as chapters at other institutions. In 1858 the chapter at the University of South Carolina led a reorganization of the order and it was reconstituted as Phi Mu Omicron, but this order did not outlast the Civil War either. The last Kuklos Adelphon chapter proper, that at the University of North Carolina, dissolved in 1866.[3] John Lester, a founder of the Ku Klux Klan, claimed that the Klans initiation ritual was based on a popular collegic fraternal order, and it has been speculated by Allen Trelease that Kuklos Adelphon almost certainly provided the model for the early Klan.[4][5]
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