BY WALTER OPINDE On this day, 31st May, 1870, the first Enforcement Act of 1870, also famously referred to as the “Civil Rights Act of 1870” or the “Force Act” or the “First Ku Klux Klan Act” was signed (assented) into law by the eighteenth President of the United States, President Hiram Ulysses Grant, after […]
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