... In 1871, Congress passed the Force Bill to Implement the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing the rights of all citizens. In the same year Ulysses S. Grant issued a proclamation calling on members of illegal organizations to disarm and disband: thereafter hundreds of Klansmen were arrested. With ... axes wed to the federal government. With the death of its strongest postwar leader, it broke down into numerous, independant, competing units, which often didn't last long enough to be placed on the list of sebversive organizations issued by the U.S. attorney general. The .....

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