United States: Anti-Klan Act of 1871 takes on the enemy from within
Ku Klux Klan Act. Thompson is chair of the House Homeland Security Committee and a long-serving — and the only — African American Mississippi Congressperson. Thompson filed the complaint in his personal capacity. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is representing him in the suit, with the law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll. “It should surprise nobody that an anti-Klan statute can be used against the white people who attacked the Capitol, because the Klan itself is just the fairly normal white response to losing political power to a multiracial c...
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