Kuklos Adelphon [SEP] dissolved or abolished
either. The last Kuklos Adelphon chapter proper, that at the University of North Carolina, dissolved in 1866.
John Lester, a founder of the Ku Klux Klan, claimed that the Klan's initiation ritual was based on a popular collegiate fraternal order, and it has been speculated by Allen Trelease that "Kuklos Adelphon almost certainly provided the model" for the early Klan.
"Spiritual Founder" of the Order by John Temple Graves.
Ku Klux Klan founder John Lester claimed that the Klan's initiation ritual was based on a popular collegiate fraternal order. Allen Trelease makes the connection that "Kuklos Adelphon (KA) almost certainly provided the model" for the early Klan. It is likely that this organization inspired the creation of the Kappa Alpha Order, a prominent fraternity in the United States. Kuklos Adelphon dissolved at the end of the Civil War. Immediately following the dissolution of Kuklos Adelphon,