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small piece of a mosaic puzzle that was necessary -- it was important. i don't want to belittle it. but it took greensboro. it took oklahoma city. it took st. louis, as well as wichita, to finally get justice for all people. >> we didn't intend to be the first in anything. we were simply trying to change things locally. this is our hometown. and as a result, i think the fabric of wichita has changed for the better and is continuing to change for the better. it was just a great achievement for all of us. i am happy that i was a part of it. >> just because there may not have been the e...

reason. it was the nation's largest socialist newspaper in the time. and it was published here in kansas. at that time, there was a huge, diverse economic dichotomy going on. you had the very, very wealthy, and you had the very, very poor. and the browder family was certainly among the very poor. and the socialist movement at that time offered hope. what happened was world war i broke out. and rather than serve in the military, he went to prison. and -- when he got out of prison, he then helped organize the communist party in the nation, and went during the 1920s to china and helped ...