Fighting White Supremacy Once Again, Ku Klux Klan Act is Challenging Race-based Scholarship at UCSD – California Globe

Fighting White Supremacy Once Again, Ku Klux Klan Act is Challenging Race-based Scholarship at UCSD – California Globe

In 1871, over five years after the establishment of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Ohio Republican Congressman Samuel Shellabarger introduced the KKK Act as “An Act to enforce the Provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment.” The KKK Act was intended to empower the federal government to enforce equal protection of the law for all Americans, including four million formerly enslaved African Americans, whose political and civil rights were gravely threatened i…