The Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. This organization gave food, clothing, medicine, and other supplies to freed slaves. (1861-65) The Freedman’s Bureau created the first African- American school in 1865 in Savannah, Georgia. During Reconstruction, Georgia had a higher population of African- Americans than any other state. The Freedmen’s Bureau created some racial tension in the south as poor blacks and whites fought for resources and jobs provided by the Bureau. The Ku Klux Klan The KKK extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks. Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and black Republican leaders. Though Congress passed legislation designed to curb Klan terrorism. The organization saw its primary goal–the reestablishment of white supremacy–fulfilled through Democratic victories in state legislatures across the South in the 1870s
