The Reading Warehouse

History logs insist that the American Civil War ended May 9, 1865.

In explicit defiance, former Confederate military officers formed the

white supremacist Ku Klux Klan, December 24, 1865.

Ever since, all classes of white men, women and children have donned the Klan

hood and robe to perpetrate unspeakable crimes against immigrants, Catholics

and Jews, and especially African Americans. Contrary to the romanticized myth

that Klan ranks are ensconced strictly in the South, Klaverns (chapters) have long

been coast-to-coast, as well as in Canada.

In 1925, Denver, and a state-wide number of other Colorado cites, were firmly

in the social, political and economic grip of the "invisible empire." The majority

of Denver's elected officials, including its mayor, were members.

Simultaneously, millions of African Americans were beginning new lives

beyond 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, Margaret

Browne, the wife of a ruthlessly ambitious Denver Klavern leader, learns that she

is one-quarter Negro. Denver Public School Libraries rates Boldfaced Lies "an

important book about a shameful era of Colorado History."

The Honorable Wellington Webb, Denver's first African American mayor (1991

to 2003) states: Charlene Porter is a gifted writer. In Boldfaced Lies she weaves a

thoughtful and suspenseful story about family subjects and experiences that were

long taboo.

If your book club list includes: The Help, Hidden Figures, Beloved, Small Great

Things, 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 the

white supremacist Ku Klux Klan, December 24, 1865.

Ever since, all classes of white men, women and children have donned the Klan

hood and robe to perpetrate unspeakable crimes against immigrants, Catholics

and Jews, and especially African Americans. Contrary to the romanticized myth

that Klan ranks are ensconced strictly in the South, Klaverns (chapters) have long

been coast-to-coast, as well as in Canada.

In 1925, Denver, and a state-wide number of other Colorado cites, were firmly

in the social, political and economic grip of the "invisible empire." The majority

of Denver's elected officials, including its mayor, were members.

Simultaneously, millions of African Americans were beginning new lives

beyond 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, Margaret

Browne, the wife of a ruthlessly ambitious Denver Klavern leader, learns that she

is one-quarter Negro. Denver Public School Libraries rates Boldfaced Lies "an

important book about a shameful era of Colorado History."

The Honorable Wellington Webb, Denver's first African American mayor (1991

to 2003) states: Charlene Porter is a gifted writer. In Boldfaced Lies she weaves a

thoughtful and suspenseful story about family subjects and experiences that were

long taboo.

If your book club list includes: The Help, Hidden Figures, Beloved, Small Great

Things, Passing, The Warmth of Other Suns, Twelve Years a Slave, Sycamore Road,

or The Underground Railroad...be sure to add Boldfaced Lies.