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Updated: 11:10 PM CST Mar 1, 2021 By Jackson Kurtz For decades in Topeka, rumors about Seaman School District s namesake Fred A. Seaman, have been floating around the community. The first time I heard about it, I was like woah, why isn t this a bigger deal? said Rene Cabrera, a Seaman High School student. But it wasn t until a report by two journalism students at Seaman High School, that proved those rumors to be true. That Fred A. Seaman was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Finding out all this information at once was really shocking, said Madeline Gearhart, who co-wrote the story. The students reporting showed Seaman s involvement with the Klan throughout the 1920s -including him being a top KKK leader. It was definitely shocking, there have been rumors but it was easy to dismiss because the school was integrated, said Tristan Fangman, co-writer. Dr. Shawn Alexander, professor and chair of African-American Studies at University of Kansas says the KKK in the

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