A program, “Hidden History: The Ku Klux Klan KCKs,” will be presented from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28.
The host of the program is CiviX, and it is being presented through a collaboration with “We the People of KCK,” the Kansas City, Kansas, Public Library and the Reola Grant Center for Family Life Development.
It will be presented at the upper Jewell building, Kansas City Kansas Community College, 7250 State Ave.
Author Tim Rives will discuss his book, “The Ku Klux Klan of Kansas City, Kansas,” and will sign books.
Chester Owens will introduce Rives, a historian and deputy director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, Kansas. Rives’ book focuses on the revival of the Klan in 1921 in Kansas City, Kansas, and details the extent of its influence in the city over the ensuing decades.
This meeting is free and open to the public. Candidates for public office have been invited to meet voters during this event.