Professor Randolph McLaughlin speaks to NBC regarding the Ku Klux Klan Act
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The Ku Klux Klan Act remained virtually forgotten for about 100 years until the 1980s, when attorney Randolph McLaughlin rediscovered it and used it in a federal civil lawsuit brought by five Black women against the Justice Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Four of the women were injured when Klansmen drove through a Black neighborhood in Chattanooga, Tennessee, firing shotguns after burning a wooden cross. The fifth was hit by flying glass. Riots broke out as a result, and though the Klansmen were charged, two were acquitted and a third served a brief sentence. In 1982, McLaughlin won an award of $535,000 for the women.
Now, nearly 40 years later, McLaughlin, now a Haub Law professor, says the act is more valuable than ever.
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