The Ku Klux Klan consisted of white, southern, democrats resisting reconstruction. This group burned down homes, churches, and school associated with African Americans. The Ku Klux Klan Act was set into place to state that all actions done by this clan were illegal. With nearly three thousand members, only six hundred were brought to trial, and most of them served little, to no time in prison. This proved to the South that without the military control it was up to the individual states to enforce the 13th and 14th amendments, and that was not a top priority for the
The Ku Klux Klan consisted of white, southern, democrats resisting reconstruction. This group burned down homes, churches, and school associated with African Americans. The Ku Klux Klan Act was set into place to state that all actions done by this clan were illegal. With nearly three thousand members, only six hundred were brought to trial, and most of them served little, to no time in prison. This proved to the South that without the military control it was up to the individual states to enforce the 13th and 14th amendments, and that was not a top priority for the