Renaming St*pleton

Sean Gillies — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 19:25:05 GMT

The Rename St*pleton for All campaign has won.

Benjamin F. Stapleton was a Ku Klux Klan member and a 5-term mayor of Denver. This bit of Colorado history has been whitewashed for seventy years. I didn't know the story until I read this great blog series by Meg Dunn about the Colorado K.K.K..

Remember: de-honoring white supremacists isn't erasure of history as long as we continue to teach future generations that the K.K.K. once held considerable political power in the State of Colorado. And that it could happen again.

Parade in Denver, May 21, 1926 Denver Public Library Digital Collections, X-21543).

My first photo in Wikimedia Commons

Sean Gillies — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 07:00:00 GMT

If you ever need an panoramic illustration of what a post-WWII just-figuring-out-this-suburban-thing Colorado neighborhood looks like in the 21st century, consider this one.

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Renaming St*pleton

My first photo in Wikimedia Commons