Between 1871 and 1961, Section 1983 Was

Between 1871 and 1961, Section 1983 was:

A) Widely used and promoted the protections of the Bill of Rights throughout the nation.
B) Sporadically used in over 1000 cases.
C) Applicable only to persons who acted as agents of the KKK in violating the rights of others.
D) Rarely used because of a narrow application of the law and the fact that the Bill of Rights was not applied to the states until the second half of the twentieth century.