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And part of the way grant tried to do that was a new set of laws called the enforcement acts. i mean, by that point, we had the emancipation proclamation, freeing the slaves, the 14th and 15th amendments that were supposed to free the slaves, give everybody the right to vote, make men at least all equal in the south. despite those rights existing on paper, though, they absolutely didn't exist in real life and in a lot of places in the country, particularly in the former confederate states, it was a reign of terror. i don't mean that as a metaphor. literally thousands of americans were killed i...

Make it is illegal to conspire to intimidate voters. i mean, trying to keep somebody from voting, trying to scare somebody from not voting is illegal anyway but what the klan act is ban any private conspiracy to intimidate voters. cooking up a plan to intimidate voters. that itself is a crime. once you cook up that plan, you work with others to concoct a scheme like that and start to put it, try to put it into action, that conspiracy is a crime. still today, thanks to the klan and what they did in the years after the civil war, that's a crime today and that law, the klan act of 1871 was cited ...

Somebody from not voting is illegal anyway but what the klan act is ban any private conspiracy to intimidate voters. cooking up a plan to intimidate voters. that itself is a crime. once you cook up that plan, you work with others to concoct a scheme like that and start to put it, try to put it into action, that conspiracy is a crime. still today, thanks to the klan and what they did in the years after the civil war, that's a crime today and that law, the klan act of 1871 was cited today as a basis for a whole new raft of lawsuits filed by the democratic party against the donald j. trump for pr...

A reality. and one of the enforcement acts had the memorable name of the ku klux klan act of 1871. the basic idea of the ku klux klan act was that if the southern states wouldn't corral the kkk racist violence, if the southern states wouldn't police that, well, then the federal government would. the klan act for a time, it essentially banned the ku klux klan as a terrorist organization and federalized their crimes. parts of it were struck down under the first amendment because freedom of assembly gives you freedom to assemble for all sorts of terrible reasons but parts of the ku klux klan surv...

Some things are just plain weird. like what if you were walking through new york's grand central station, and in the blink of an eye, nearly everyone around you suddenly froze in place? >> they stopped what they were doing and just stood like frozen. >> they're not moving. i can't move my cart. >> that's exactly what happens here on february 24th, 2007. grand central comes to a very strange and screeching halt. >> this is so weird. >> what is going on? >> i don't either. >> were you here from the beginning? >> no. >> do you know what they're doing? >> no. >> opened in 1871, grand central is th...