In response to rising violence and intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction, the Arkansas legislature passed a landmark anti-Klan law on March 12, 1869. This legislation empowered the governor to use the state militia to suppress white supremacist terrorism and protect Black citizens and Republican officials. The law represented one of the earliest state-level efforts to combat racial violence during the post-Civil War era.
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