History logs insist that the American Civil War ended May 9, 1865.In explicit defiance, former Confederate military officers formed thewhite supremacist Ku Klux Klan, December 24, 1865.Ever since, all classes of white men, women and children have donned the Klanhood and robe to perpetrate unspeakable crimes against immigrants, Catholicsand Jews, and especially African Americans. Contrary to the romanticized myththat Klan ranks are ensconced strictly in the South, Klaverns (chapters) have longbeen coast-to-coast, as well as in Canada.In 1925, Denver, and a state-wide number of other Colorado cites, were firmlyin the social, political and economic grip of the "invisible empire." The majorityof Denver's elected officials, including its mayor, were members.Simultaneously, millions of African Americans were beginning new livesbeyond the former slave states. Many were light skinned enough to "pass for white."And did so.In Charlene Porter's Denver Post #1 bestselling novel, Boldfaced Lies, MargaretBrowne, the wife of a ruthlessly ambitious Denver Klavern leader, learns that sheis one-quarter Negro. Denver Public School Libraries rates Boldfaced Lies "animportant book about a shameful era of Colorado History."The Honorable Wellington Webb, Denver's first African American mayor (1991to 2003) states: Charlene Porter is a gifted writer. In Boldfaced Lies she weaves athoughtful and suspenseful story about family subjects and experiences that werelong taboo.If your book club list includes: The Help, Hidden Figures, Beloved, Small GreatThings, Passing, The Warmth of Other Suns, Twelve Years a Slave, Sycamore Road, or The Underground Railroad...be sure to add Boldfaced Lies.History logs insist that the American Civil War ended May 9, 1865.In explicit defiance, former Confederate military officers formed thewhite supremacist Ku Klux Klan, December 24, 1865.Ever since, all classes of white men, women and children have donned the Klanhood and robe to perpetrate unspeakable crimes against immigrants, Catholicsand Jews, and especially African Americans. Contrary to the romanticized myththat Klan ranks are ensconced strictly in the South, Klaverns (chapters) have longbeen coast-to-coast, as well as in Canada.In 1925, Denver, and a state-wide number of other Colorado cites, were firmlyin the social, political and economic grip of the "invisible empire." The majorityof Denver's elected officials, including its mayor, were members.Simultaneously, millions of African Americans were beginning new livesbeyond the former slave states. Many were light skinned enough to "pass for white."And did so.In Charlene Porter's Denver Post #1 bestselling novel, Boldfaced Lies, MargaretBrowne, the wife of a ruthlessly ambitious Denver Klavern leader, learns that sheis one-quarter Negro. Denver Public School Libraries rates Boldfaced Lies "animportant book about a shameful era of Colorado History."The Honorable Wellington Webb, Denver's first African American mayor (1991to 2003) states: Charlene Porter is a gifted writer. In Boldfaced Lies she weaves athoughtful and suspenseful story about family subjects and experiences that werelong taboo.If your book club list includes: The Help, Hidden Figures, Beloved, Small GreatThings, Passing, The Warmth of Other Suns, Twelve Years a Slave, Sycamore Road, or The Underground Railroad...be sure to add Boldfaced Lies.
