this is a large group of caucasion people you killed African Americans because they belived that balcks were un-human. They were racist. They also burned down houses.
1871
Ku Klux Klan Act
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The Klu Klux Klan
President Ulysses S. Grant was the president who took action against the Ku Klux Klan. He helped to pass the Klan Act in 1871.
it is also known as the Ku Klux Klan act.
Hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan paid no attention to the 15th amendment and the 1870 Enforcement Act. Their violence only increased, despite the fact that at least in one state, Texas, arrested 6,000 Klansmen. Congress stepped in as well and passed the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act. This new law allowed for the US military to be used to enforce the laws and amendments passed to protect Afro-Americans and other minorities from exercising their civil rights. The act also outlawed the Klan. The racists in the Klan disguised themselves and joined other racist groups.
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Oklahoma was placed under martial law as the governor tried to stamp out the Klan. Public bodies dominated by the Klan included the state government of Oregon and the city council of Anaheim, California. At the 1924 Democratic National Convention, the delegates voted down a plank condemning the Klan. It's estimated that more than one in eight Americans was a member of the Klan at its height. Prior to 1924, the above order was given to the Susan L. Davis, author of "Authentic History of the Ku Klux Klan, 1865 - 1877", by Major Robert Donnell, who was Grand Scribe of the "Invisible Empire" in 1869, to be included in her book. He stated that the Ku Klux Klan was not disbanded until 1877, but this order was General Forrest's method of misleading those who were attempting to dissolve it by trying to get the Anti - Ku Klux Act passed by Congress. The Anti - Ku Klux Act was finally passed into law in 1871.
In December of 1865 13 Confederate veterans met in Tennessee to form the Ku Klux Klan. The group called itself a social club. But the reality of the Klan was to act as a terrorist organization and attack freed Blacks and plot other types of disturbances to encourage Southerners to support laws against freed Blacks. The Klan exists to this day.
The Ku Klux Klan was officially disbanded by its own Grand Wizard and founding member former confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1869. Why did he do this? These may be a couple contributing factors. The original social club had become a very violent terrorist group, and with its disorganization out of the control of its leaders. The federal government was actively seeking out Klan members, and was about to pass the Ku Klux Klan act suspending habeas corpus for suspected Klan members.
-a felony to keep someone (blacks) from voting or running for office -the president could arrest people who were suspected of being in the kkk