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The Enforcement Act of 1871 (17 Stat. 13 ), also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, Third Enforcement Act, [ 1] Third Ku Klux Klan Act, [ 2] Civil Rights Act of 1871, or Force Act of 1871, [ 3] is an Act of the United States Congress that was intended to combat the paramilitary vigilantism of the Ku Klux Klan. The act made certain acts committed by ...
United States v. Robert Hayes Mitchell. The Enforcement Act of 1870, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1870 or First Ku Klux Klan Act, or Force Act (41st Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 114, 16 Stat. 140, enacted May 31, 1870, effective 1871), is a United States federal law that empowers the President to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth ...
Bibb Graves. Bibb Graves (D), (1873 – 1942) was the Governor of Alabama. He lost his first campaign for governor in 1922, but four years later, with the secret endorsement of the Ku Klux Klan, he was elected to his first term as governor. Graves was almost certainly the Exalted Cyclops (chapter president) of the Montgomery chapter of the Klan.
The Ku Klux Klan ( / ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn, ˌkjuː -/ ), [e] commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups. Various commentators, including Fergus Bordewich, have characterized the Klan as America's first terrorist group.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and the NAACP are using the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 in a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and others.
South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials of 1871-1872. "Lynch Law in Williamsburg" – The KKK claimed responsibility when Daniel Edwards and Alex McClam were hanged near Kingstree, S.C. in April 1871 [1] On October 17, 1871, U.S. President Ulysses Grant declared nine South Carolina counties to be in active rebellion, and suspended habeas corpus. [2]
Atlanta resident Bill Thomas, a local history buff and economic development director, recently made a presentation to the LCGHS on the KKK.
1871 - US Civil Rights Act of 1871 passed, also known as the Klan Act. 1872 - P.B.S. Pinchback is sworn in as the first Black Governor of a state of the United States of America. 1873 - In the Slaughterhouse Cases the U.S. Supreme Court votes to exclude state laws from being subject to the 14th amendment.