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The process of even just discussing a change to Seaman Unified School District 345’s name will cost at least $30,000 and could cost as much as $70,000 to get started. The Seaman Board of Education on Monday approved a contract with the Kansas Leadership Center to help assist in the district’s name change discussion, which comes months after student journalists at Seaman High School first confirmed long-held rumors that district namesake and pioneer Fred A. Seaman was also a leader in the Topeka chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. The Kansas Leadership Center contract, which was approved in the board’s consent agenda, stipulates that the contract’s $30,000 base amount would go toward creating the advisory committee, providing introduction to the leadership center’s framework, and holding three retreats for group discussion on a potential name change. ....
He found few friends by being himself. “I was trying to prove myself instead of just being myself,” Patterson told The Capital-Journal. “I think it was basically my junior year when I decided I really just needed to be myself instead of trying to fit into a stereotype.” Now a recent graduate from the high school, Patterson said he reflects back on what eventually became a lonely experience at Seaman, and on how most people’s perceptions of who he was supposed to be, came not from a place of malice, but one of ignorance. And it’s a similar perception he sees when it comes to discussions of the district’s namesake, Fred Seaman, and his role as an exalted cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan. ....
Students pressure school district named for KKK member nydailynews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nydailynews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Updated: 11:10 PM CST Mar 1, 2021 By Jackson Kurtz For decades in Topeka, rumors about Seaman School District s namesake Fred A. Seaman, have been floating around the community. The first time I heard about it, I was like woah, why isn t this a bigger deal? said Rene Cabrera, a Seaman High School student. But it wasn t until a report by two journalism students at Seaman High School, that proved those rumors to be true. That Fred A. Seaman was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. Finding out all this information at once was really shocking, said Madeline Gearhart, who co-wrote the story. The students reporting showed Seaman s involvement with the Klan throughout the 1920s -including him being a top KKK leader. It was definitely shocking, there have been rumors but it was easy to dismiss because the school was integrated, said Tristan Fangman, co-writer. Dr. Shawn Alexander, professor and chair of African-American Studies at University of Kansas says the KK ....