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Ku Klux Klan membership ledgers for the Greater Denver area, 1924-1926, were recently digitized and posted online by History Colorado. (Katie Bush, History Colorado)
For most of its 144-year statehood, Colorado has been a hotbed of institutional discrimination and racism that privileges white culture over all others. That’s the case in most states, unfortunately, but forward-thinking historians have been working to shed light on that in recent years.
Exhibit A: History Colorado’s digitized Ku Klux Klan ledgers, which debuted online this week at historycolorado.org/kkkledgers. The archive, which contains 1,300 pages of original KKK membership records, only covers the years 1924 through 1926, but its contents are stunning.