Historic front page from the Des Moines Register, March 9, 1926: School voters reject KKK

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As anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic and anti-Black sentiment mounts in the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan becomes increasingly powerful across the Midwest. On March 9, 1926, the Des Moines Register's sister paper, the Evening Tribune, reports that a ticket headed by women has turned back an effort to install a KKK majority on the city's school board. The women-led effort succeeds just six years after passage of the 19th Amendment grants women the right to vote. One of the successful candidates, Millicent Lincoln, identified in the article as Mrs. S.E. Lincoln, becomes president of the board and serves as a longtime leader of the Iowa PTA.

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