Second Enforcement Act
February 28, 1871 · US Capitol, Washington, D.C.
U.S. federal law, the second of three Enforcement Acts passed in 1870-1871 during the Reconstruction Era, aimed at attacks on African American voting rights by groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.
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Second Enforcement Act