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of registration and voting in the South
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It had at least tried
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And finally they passed what was called
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the Ku Klux Klan Act; April 20, 1871
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It authorized the President to use the Army
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and to suspend the writ of habeas corpus wherever he deemed necessary,
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if there was a state of insurrection--
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which there was in South Carolina, in about twelve counties
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Move the Army in, if necessary,
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to protect the safety and security of elections
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Now, under this authority of these Enforcement Acts and the Klan Acts,
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approximately 3000 people, mostly white Southerners,