The passage of the Enforcement Acts gave the federal government new powers to curtail anti-Black violence by allowing for the federal prosecution of terror groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, which the Grant administration used sparingly before ultimately abandoning the cause of Black citizenship. In 1873, more than 100 Black people were massacred in Colfax, La., by white Fusionists (an alliance of conservative Republicans and Democrats) after an all-Black militia had taken over the courthouse to protect the duly elected Republican government from white mob violence. Back then, elected officials listened to harrowing testimony of Black Americans victimized by racial terror amid a political backlash aided and abetted by local officials who collaborated with racial terrorists and a federal government that frequently ignored violent massacres quaintly referred to as “outrages.” For example, in 1868, a white mob in Camilla, Ga., killed numerous Black people in the state’s southwestern region, marking the beginning of the end of African American political power in rural areas. 6 hearings find their historical analogue in the congressional hearings investigating anti-Black violence by the Ku Klux Klan that unfolded in January 1871. 6, 2021, contains a direct throughline across three periods of Reconstruction in America - from the eruption of white racial terror campaigns that stalled the First Reconstruction to the white violence that greeted Black people who tried to vote, eat at restaurants, swim at beaches, travel on buses, or stay in hotels during the Second Reconstruction to our current discontents. The violence that erupted at the nation’s capital on Jan.

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