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Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood reckons with its namesake’s KKK ties
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What’s in a name? While some people might hear Stapleton and think of the old Denver airport or the burgeoning Denver neighborhood, others cringe at its origins. Named after the five-term Denver Mayor Benjamin Stapleton starting in the 1920s – and member of the Ku Klux Klan who helped position Klan members throughout city government…