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The Kansas branch of the NAACP in Kansas City wrote this letter to Kansas Governor Ben S. Paulen in Topeka. The NAACP thanked Governor Paulen for not passing Senate Bill 269 known as the Ku Klux Klan bill. If passed, this bill would have allowed organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan to operate in Kansas without taking out a charter. Governor Paulen disagreed with the bill and discouraged its passing. The bill failed in the Kansas House of Representatives with 65 nays and 57 yeas.
Creator: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Date: March 13, 1925
Item Number: 214820
Call Number: Governor's records, Paulen, Box 22 Folder 10
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 214820
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - Paulen, Benjamin Sanford
Community Life - Clubs and organizations - Reform/Advocacy - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Date - 1920s - 1925
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Civil rights - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - KKK
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Paulen, Benjamin Sanford
Government and Politics - State Government - Legislature - House of Representatives
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Correspondence
People - African Americans - Discrimination
People - Notable Kansans - Paulen, Ben Sanford, 1869-1961
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Places - Other States - New York
Thematic Time Period - The Twenties, 1920 - 1929
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Correspondence
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