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Collection Reference Number GLC08384
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1870s 
Title Pardon of John Miller
Date 28 March 1872
Author Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885)  
Document Type Government document; Legal document
Content Description Convicted of violation of "the Enforcement Act." Miller's crime was intimidation and violence against an African American in attempting to prevent the former slave from voting. Klan related.
Subjects President  Reconstruction  African American History  Election  Suffrage  Slavery  Ku Klux Klan  Government and Civics  Law  
People Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885)  Miller, John (fl. 1872)  
Place written Washington, D.C.
Theme Reconstruction; Law; The Presidency; African Americans; Government & Politics
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945