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The Invisible Empire On Sunday, September 15, 1963, a white man was seen getting out of a white and turquoise Chevrolet car and placing a box under the steps of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Soon afterwards, at 10:22 a.m., the box exploded, killing four girls attending Sunday school classes at the church. Twenty-three other people were also hurt by the explosion. A witness identified Robert Chambliss, a member of the KKK, as the man who placed the bomb under the steps. Sadly, this and various other violent acts were performed by the Ku Klux Klan, a White supremacy organization in the United States. The Klan used terrorist tactics to oppose civil rights for Blacks, Jews, and other ethnic, racial, social or religious groups. These tactics brought about a new and ongoing era of racism. This new era began in 1865, just after the Civil War. President Lincoln had abolished slavery, but some whites, who saw Negroes as nothing more than animals, feared that the free Negroes would take revenge, and possibly take their jobs (Evolution). This fear and bitterness increased and caused racism to rise to a whole new level. The first chapter of the Ku Klux Klan was established in