Author and educator Beverley Olson Buller will give a presentation and lead discussion about William Allen White’s resistance against the Ku Klux Klan.

The program, “William Allen White and the KKK in Kansas,” will be 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday (Oct. 25) at the Fairchild/Knox Hay Barn on the TCHS campus, 201 W. Washington St.

William Allen White wrote in 1922, “When anything is going to happen in this country, it happens first in Kansas.”‘ Accordingly, Kansas became the first state in the union to outlaw the Ku Klux Klan.

This week’s TCHS program is made possible through Humanities Kansas. The community is welcome to attend the Olson Buller’s presentation, which is part of the historical society’s Fourth Tuesday programming. TCHS presents programs the fourth Tuesday of each month aside from June and December.

“William Allen White and the KKK in Kansas” is part of Humanities Kansas’ Speakers Bureau and “21st Century Civics,” a collection of resources that invite Kansans to participate in community discussions and learn more about the history of American democracy and the shared responsibilities of citizenship. “21st Century Civics” is made possible with support from “A More Perfect Union: America at 250,” an initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Refreshments will be served at the program. For more information, go to tonganoxiehistoricalsociety.org or call 913-845-2960.

The museum also is open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays, 9 a.m.-noon Wednesdays and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays or by appointment.

The program is made possible by Humanities Kansas. Refreshments will be served after the program.

— This story originally was published Oct. 19.