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City Slammed for Stalling on Plan to Rename Racist Ballpark
Yahoo! ^ | 3/12/24 | Brooke Leigh Howard

Posted on 03/15/2024 11:03:43 AM PDT by DallasBiff

“John Euless, namesake of Fresno City College’s Euless Park… a 1922 newspaper article identified (Euless) as a leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Fresno,” Warszawski wrote in the editorial. “Reading that, my eyeballs nearly popped out of their sockets. Fresno City’s baseball facility, and former home to minor-league baseball from the early 1940s to the late 1980s, is named for a KKK leader?”

Warszawski continued that he found a newspaper from 1922 that included a list of Klansmen’s names—including Euless—which was “seized by police during a raid… and released to the media by authority of the Fresno County district attorney.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: ballpark; california; fresno; history; racist; robertbyrd
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To: Jyotishi

Yeah, I played rugby against them.


21 posted on 03/15/2024 11:37:45 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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