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District s name just the surface of Seaman students push for change

He found few friends by being himself. “I was trying to prove myself instead of just being myself,” Patterson told The Capital-Journal. “I think it was basically my junior year when I decided I really just needed to be myself instead of trying to fit into a stereotype.” Now a recent graduate from the high school, Patterson said he reflects back on what eventually became a lonely experience at Seaman, and on how most people’s perceptions of who he was supposed to be, came not from a place of malice, but one of ignorance. And it’s a similar perception he sees when it comes to discussions of the district’s namesake, Fred Seaman, and his role as an exalted cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan.

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Kansas school district is named for a Ku Klux Klan leader Students demand a change

Kansas school district is named for a Ku Klux Klan leader. Students demand a change Eric Adler, The Kansas City Star © Dreamstime/TNS LIFE-EDU-SCHOOLDISTRICT-KLAN-LEADER-DMT. After so many years, many people weren t sure if it was fiction. But the rumor that the Seaman School District in Topeka, Kansas, had been named for a member of the Ku Klux Klan existed for decades. In October, it was confirmed as truth. Two enterprising journalists on the Seaman High School newspaper searching historic news accounts found that Fred Seaman, the founder of the school for whom the district is also named not only was a member of the KKK, but also was a local leader, a robed and hooded exalted cyclops.

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Kansas school district is named for a Ku Klux Klan leader Students demand a change

Kansas school district is named for a Ku Klux Klan leader Students demand a change
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Seaman students petition USD 345 to change name with KKK connection

Seaman students petition USD 345 to change name with KKK connection
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