See where 1920s Denver Ku Klux Klan members lived, search the database

Staff astatine History Colorado spent much than 300 hours logging by manus each code listed successful the 2 Ku Klux Klan ledgers successful the organization’s postulation that papers the rank of the Denver KKK section from 1924 done 1926. The ledgers incorporate astir 30,000 entries.

The mapping task followed the digitization of the ledgers’ contents and their work online this spring, making the accusation easy accessible to the nationalist for the archetypal time. There isn’t a akin representation of KKK members’ addresses successful a ample metropolis anyplace other successful the United States, said Shaun Boyd, curator of archives astatine History Colorado.

The addresses are plotted beneath connected a representation of modern Denver. History Colorado warns that addresses connected the ledger whitethorn not lucifer straight with addresses contiguous arsenic streets and buildings person moved successful the past 100 years. The ledgers correspond members of the Denver section of the KKK, though immoderate entries database residential addresses extracurricular of the city. It’s unclear wherefore those men are successful the Denver ledgers, particularly since galore smaller communities extracurricular of Denver had their ain chapters. — Elise Schmelzer