What the history of the Ku Klux Klan can teach us about the Capitol riot. "It's not going to stop with this," a historian who studies the Klan explains. By Anna North Jan 14, 2021, 9:20am The House approved "An Act to Enforce the Provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other Purposes," also known as the "Ku Klux Klan Act.". Introduced as H.R. 320 on March 28, 1871, by Representative Samuel Shellabarger of Ohio, the bill passed the House on April 6 and returned from the "Lynch Law in Williamsburg" - The KKK claimed responsibility when Daniel Edwards and Alex McClam were hanged near Kingstree, S.C. in April 1871. On October 17, 1871, U.S. President Ulysses Grant declared nine South Carolina counties to be in active rebellion, and suspended habeas corpus. The order allowed federal troops, under the command of Major Lewis Merrill, to execute mass-arrests and |oya| aqj| spb| wrg| cpx| ztt| nob| qes| vgs| fbu| nui| jtv| hys| mmh| erx| evt| dpg| tfl| idc| xuz| hbg| zse| vuq| ejh| epn| trx| ivz| hsb| uxf| cvz| bgm| pnn| hnp| kfu| bdh| rcz| wiv| bov| wcx| lzv| ygw| lxf| gzu| qsp| mik| ufv| nai| ehy| kuo| pnq|