The Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States. Report No. 41, part 1. (Reports of the Committees of the Senate of the United States for the 2nd Session of the Forty-second Congress, 1871-72) (Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy)

US Senate

GPO, 1872

The investigation of Congress into the Klu-Klux Conspiracy.  Report No. 41, part 1. Hardcover. Rebound in fine modern green cloth. Gold lettering and head and tail lines. Internally, some marginal chipping and loss to edges of first nine pages, otherwise text in very good condition without markings or wear. Report No. 41, Part 1 from the Senate of the United States, 2nd Session of the 42nd Congress, Report by the Joint Select Committee of the Senate on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States. 

Covers the report issued by the Senate on March 10th, 1871 on the state of affairs in the southern states that ultimately led to the passage of the Enforcement Act of 1871 to battle corruption within the new state governments and violence on the part of the Ku Klux Klan. This volume also covers an investigation of the economic conditions in the Reconstruction South as well as infrastructure development.  From the complete and scarce 1872 Ku Klux Klan reports regarding their rebellious activities. Considered one of the most complete chronicles of the Klan from the Reconstruction Era. This volume contains numerous interviews with prominent citizens, local officials, victims of Klan activity, and other witnesses. The investigation of Klan activity was part of the larger effort to eliminate the Ku Klux Klan altogether with the Enforcement Act of 1871, which was also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1871 or the Ku Klux Klan Act. This act empowered the President to suppress state disorders and suspend the right of habeus corpus in the wake of racial violence and intimidation initiated by the Ku Klux Klan and their supporters.