Grant's Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan

by Guy Gugliotta

Grant's Enforcer offers a gripping story of the early years after the Civil War and the campaign led by President Grant's Attorney General Amos T. Akerman to destroy the Ku Klux Klan. Akerman, a former Georgia slaveholder and the only Southerner to serve in a Reconstruction cabinet, was the first federal lawman to propose using the Fourteenth Amendment to prosecute civil rights violations.

In 1871 Akerman and his allies brought the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820373362
• ISBN13: 9780820373362
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 296 Pages