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Seaman district’s namesake was long rumored to be tied to the KKK. These student journalists found proof of it.
Rafael Garciargarcia2@gannett.comView CommentsThe started like a lot of history’s bombshell investigative stories — with an anonymous source tipping the journalists in the right direction.Fred Seaman, the namesake of the high school and district and a prominent education figure in early 20th century Kansas, had long been rumored to have ties to the Ku Klux Klan. But in the decades following his death in 1948, those rumors remained just that in the district.But then seniors Tristan Fangman and Madeline Gearhart — co-editors-in-chief of The Clipper, the high school’s student newspaper — got...…Rafael Garciargarcia2@gannett.comView CommentsThe started like a lot of history’s bombshell investigative stories — with an anonymous source tipping the journalists in the right direction.Fred Seaman, the namesake of the high school and district and a prominent education figure in early 20th century Kansas, had long been rumored to have ties to the Ku Klux Klan. But in the decades following his death in 1948, those rumors remained just that in the district.But then seniors Tristan Fangman and Madeline Gearhart — co-editors-in-chief of The Clipper, the high school’s student newspaper — got...WW…
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