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===Ku Klux Klan Act===
{{Main|Ku Klux Klan Act}}

The [[Ku Klux Klan Act|Enforcement Act of 1871]], the third Enforcement Act passed by Congress and also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act (formally, "An Act to enforce the Provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other Purposes"), made state officials liable in federal court for depriving anyone of their civil rights or the equal protection of the laws. It further made a number of the KKK's intimidation tactics into federal offenses, authorized the president to call out the militia to suppress conspiracies against the operation of the federal government, and prohibited those suspected of complicity in such conspiracies to serve on juries related to the Klan's activities. The Act also authorized the president to suspend the writ of ''[[habeas corpus]]'' if violence rendered efforts to suppress the Klan ineffective. It was passed at the request of [[Ulysses S. Grant]].