On November 28, 1871, Ku Klux Klan trials began in US District Court in South Carolina as part of a federal effort to halt growing White violence in the former Confederate states.

Read a book review of Lou Faulkner Williams, The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872 (1996) and learn more about the early history of the Klan.

On November 28, 1893, women voted in New Zealand elections, becoming the first to participate in a national election anywhere in the world.