Washington, D.C. - President Grant signing the Ku-Klux Force Bill in the President's room with Secretary Robeson and Gen. Porter, at the Capitol, April 20 – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique engraving of Washington, D.C. - President Grant signing the Ku-Klux Force Bill in the President's room with Secretary Robeson and Gen. Porter, at the Capitol, April 20 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Washington, D.C. - President Grant signing the Ku-Klux Force Bill in the President's room with Secretary Robeson and Gen. Porter, at the Capitol, April 20
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Grant's signing of the Ku-Klux Force Bill on April 20, 1871, is the event shown here, set in the President's Room at the Capitol with Navy Secretary George M. Robeson and a General Porter in attendance. Congress passed the measure to give federal authorities power to prosecute Klan violence against Black voters and officeholders in the South, and Grant had pressed for such a law. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper ran this wood engraving on May 13, 1871, one of many images the weekly published of Reconstruction-era politics. It is worth looking closely at the formal ceremony itself, since the scene records the signing rather than the violence the law was meant to address.
| Created / published | 1871 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, (1871 May 13), p. 145. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI(2); Pres.; Ku Klux Klan; Congress, U.S.--Bills. G-, U- S. (Simpson), 1822-1885. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,189 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159067 |
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