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Article: KLAN TIES SPUR CHANGE LATE MAYOR STAPLETON'S NAME EASED OUT OF PROJECT BECAUSE OF LINKS TO KKK.(City Desk/Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- November 5, 2002
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Byline: Robert Sanchez
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
Denver's massive Stapleton Redevelopment Project is quietly dropping the late mayor's name because of his political ties to the Ku Klux Klan eight decades ago.
Benjamin Stapleton's name has shrunk on signs and is being phased out of developments at the 4,700-acre site. The name already is gone from a community newsletter touting the property, the former home of the airport that bore the mayor's name.
``That name conjures up a painful past for some people that just won't fade away,'' said Denver City Councilwoman Happy Haynes, who helped push the changes. ``This is a way to begin erasing ...