Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Lifelong Learners: Madge: The Life and Times of Madge Oberholtzer, the young Irvington woman who brought down D. C. Stephenson and the Ku Klux Klan
1:30 p.m.
Calendar: Association of Lifelong Learners Calendar
The true story of Madge Oberholtzer, the young Irvington woman who brought down D.C. Stephenson and the Ku Klux Klan. Newsman Harold C. Feightner wrote about her saying, “Few deaths of comparatively inconspicuous people have had the far-flung effects that hers did”. Her passing marked the beginning of the end of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana; it resulted in the indictment of several political figures and the complete change in the capital cities’ administration, and it nearly wrecked a political party.