JUNE 21st, 1925 – In Wichita, Kansas the black semi-professional baseball team the Wichita Monrovians (named for the capital of Liberia) played a team from the Democrat Party hate group the Ku Klux Klan. During the 1920s the Democrats were trying to improve the image of the Klan via public picnics and other civic events.
Membership in the KKK was in the millions nationwide and Kansas was a center of Klan activity. That is tragic considering that in the days of “Bleeding Kansas” in the 1850s anti-slavery Kansans called Jayhawks fought pro-slavery forces in the territory, although most of the pro-slavery forces rolled in from Missouri.
During America’s Civil War the fighting between the two states was especially bloody and memories of the raid on Lawrence, Kansas by pro-slavery terrorists still haunt the region. By 1925 the state was one of many in which official Ku Klux Klan baseball teams played, and the team playing in Wichita that day was Wichita Klan Number Six. Continue reading
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