Response and Effect
As a response to this act, Klansmen in South Carolina were put on trial, in front of juries mainly made up of blacks. Amos T. Akerman was largely involved with the prosecutions of these klansmen. He worked to make America aware of klan violence and how much of a problem it was becoming. His work led to trials and jail sentences of a few hundred members of the KKK. Many others who were put on trial either fled or were only given a warning. Also, in 1872 the KKK as an organization was officially broken.
The Enforcement Acts were a series of acts, and it wasn’t until the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, the third enforcement act, were the regulations to protect blacks and enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution really enforced and followed. It was after the creation of the third enforcement act that trials began to be conducted, and people were convicted for the crimes they had committed against the Enforcement Acts.
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