My Town Denounced Its Racist Past
Channel: Maliki
Date: 2023-06-21

The City of Canon City city council has officially denounced the KKK, a far-right white nationalist terrorist group with which the town shares some strong historical ties…


William J. Simmons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joseph_Simmons

Reverend Fred Arnold
https://historica.fandom.com/wiki/Fred_G._Arnold

Guy U. Hardy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_U._Hardy

Dewey C. Bailey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_C._Bailey

Rice W. Means
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_W._Means

Clarence Morley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Morley

Benjamin F. Stapleton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_F._Stapleton

When the Klan Came to Colorado
https://www.northerncoloradohistory.com/when-the-klan-came-to-colorado

The Story Behind This Mystifying Photo of KKK Members at a Colorado Fair
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-story-behind-this-mystifying-photo-of-kkk-members-at-a-colorado-fair

 Royal Gorge Regional Museum & History Center
https://museum.canoncity.org/

Now and Then THE ROARING 20’S: The Decade that Metamorphosed America…
https://museum.canoncity.org/?p=5052

Continental Trust Building
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=6442
Photographed By Christopher Busta-Peck, March 12, 2008 

Rivoli Theatre
https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/19053

Hotel St Cloud
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=153308

Holy Cross Abbey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Cross_Abbey_(Ca%C3%B1on_City,_Colorado)

1921 KKK Application
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3037104/Are-white-race-colored-race-Application-form-join-Ku-Klux-Klan-1921-unearthed-historian.html

Popular Mechanics 1925
https://archive.org/details/PopularMechanics1925/Popular_Mechanics_01_1925/

Other images are from Wikipedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page


Intro Video is from Internet Archive was produced by American Film Institute and is titled “INTERNATIONAL NEWS - 442”
https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.88967

Intro Song is from Internet Archive was produced by the US Marine Band and is titled “The Gallant Seventh”
https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.88967