Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate Highlight

In the end Congress launched a massive investigation, filling 11 volumes with evidence of an unprecedented reign of floggings, beatings, burnings, shootings, hangings, and torture over a four-year span. In 1872 Congress passed a law allowing Klansmen to be tried in federal court, and government troops moved in to mop up the diehards.