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The KKK act was written to protect: “Catholics, Republicans and Negroes” in the Reconstruction South.

That is incorrect

. Catholicism wasn't a target of the KKK until the second resurrection of the KKK(and it's peak stength) in the 1900's when it's ranks swelled with anti Catholic recriuts from northern states. Anti Catholicism was a largely Northern disease as large emmigration from the southern European(Catholic) countries that began in the mid to late 1880's, well after the passage of the KKK Act in 1871. These immigrants began swelling in the industrial cities of the North, competeing with the naive population for work.

Virtual no Catholics or anyone else imigrated to the post Civil War South as it's economy collapsed.

Anti Judaism began an target of the KKK when Eastern European populations emigrated into the U.S.

There weren’t a lot of Catholics in the antebellum South but there were some, especially in Maryland, Kentucky, and Louisiana. The one Catholic among the Signers of the Declaration of Independence and the one Catholic among the Signers of the Constitution were Marylanders. Chief Justice Roger Taney (from Maryland) was a Catholic. Jefferson Davis got some of his education from Catholic educators. There is a street in Macon, GA, named in honor of Pope Pius IX (Pio Nono). There is a Catholic Church in Edgefield, SC, that dates back to 1856.

You are wrong.
I actually was involved in a KKK Act, case, which was tossed out by SCOTUS in a similar case, though I won my case at that 10th Circuit level.
The preamble of the KKK Act clearly states its purpose, as to protect CATHOLICS, REPUBLICANS AND NEGROES in the Reconstruction South!
Strange that opposing counsel never told me I was wrong, as I made the preamble part of my case.