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 1935. It also included Robert Stanton, brother of eventual Bonfils-Stanton Foundation founder Charles Stanton and himself president and treasurer of the charitable organization from 1987 until his death in 2000.
No punches pulled in Colorado Klan exhibit
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Ku Klux Klan ruled Denver a century ago; legacy still felt
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Business and policy leaders sign letter to President Biden urging U.S. leadership to speed global vaccination effort 16th May 2021
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New York (Antara/Business Wire)- A group of 16 international business and policy leaders today published an open letter to U.S. President Joseph R. Biden calling on him to “demonstrate decisive U.S. leadership now” to combat increasingly deadly Covid-19 outbreaks in Latin America, Europe and Asia.
“The U.S. must act now to leverage rapidly increasing U.S. domestic vaccine production, export ever-larger volumes of our surplus supplies, and go to work on the massive technical and logistical challenges to vaccine development on a global scale,” the letter says, noting the rampant spread of the virus in places like India and the Philippines and the likelihood for mutations that will perpetuate globally if left unchecked.