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Commission discusses standardizing 'Luckiamute' spelling and 'myth-busting' local KKK narratives
Summary
Commissioners agreed to consider clarifying the public spelling of the Luckiamute place name and discussed a proposed project to collect documentation and oral histories to correct persistent local myths about the Ku Klux Klan's prominence in Dallas, with members urging careful documentation and wider participation before formal action.
Commissioners discussed two closely related history-and-education items: standardizing the public spelling of the Luckiamute place name and developing a 'myth-busting' effort to address persistent and potentially misleading narratives about the Ku Klux Klan in Dallas’s history.
A commissioner argued that the official spelling should be two words, capitalized,…
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