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.
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