Educator, community icon and KKK leader: Who was Fred Seaman? By day, he wore a neat suit, likely coated in a thin layer of powdery, white chalkboard dust as he tended to the rural children of northern Topeka. By night, he defended the stark white, pointed pillow-case hood as an exalted cyclops in the white supremacist, myth-ridden Ku Klux Klan. He was Fred A. Seaman, namesake of Seaman Unified School District 345. In the decades since his 1948 death, rumors had plagued the legacy of the district patriarch and rural Kansas education icon, alleging that he had been a member of the Topeka Klan. It wasn’t until an October 2020 ... Continue reading... https://www.cjonline.com/news/20201206/educator-community-icon-and-kkk-leader-who-was-fred-seaman | Find in Internet Archives | [google]Educator, community icon and KKK leader: Who was Fred Seaman?[/google]
