Civil Rights Act of 1871

The Civil Rights Act of 1871, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, is an important federal statute in force in the United States. Several of its provisions still exist today as codified statutes, but the most important still-existing provision is . The Act was originally enacted a few years after the American Civil War, along with the 1870 Force Act. One of the main reasons behind its passage was to protect southern blacks from the Ku Klux Klan by providing a civil remedy for abuses then being committed in the South. The statute has been subjected to only minor changes since then, but has been the subject of voluminous interpretation by courts.
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