Local Ku Klux Klan branches have remained…

May 1870 CE

Local Ku Klux Klan branches have remained active for a time despite Nathan Bedford Forrest's order to disband, prompting Republican Reconstruction supporters in the Congress to pass the Force Act on May 31, 1870, to protect the constitutional rights guaranteed to blacks by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.

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United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → KKK (Ku Klux Klan) View →

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