June 15, 2021
When History Colorado recently published its long-sealed registry of local Ku Klux Klan membership from the 1920s, it blood-tied two longtime Denver cultural institutions to the most vile supremacy group in American history. And they did not duck, cover, spin or pivot. Instead, they chose radical transparency. The 1,300-page roster included George Figgis, the first director of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, who was a dues-paying member of the KKK while running the museum from 1910 to ...