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Before rising to international fame as a cyclist, Major Taylor helped found this city’s See-Saw Cycling Club for black residents. This city’s namesake Freeman newspaper was the first [emphasize] illustrated African-American newspaper. The “Battle of Pogue’s Creek” was the arrest and disarmament of attendees of a Democratic convention in this city that convened to criticize the wartime policies of Governor Oliver P. Morton. In 1910, the (*) Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company was incorporated in this city. (10[1])A speech given in this city by Robert F. Kennedy called for “[taming] the savageness of man” in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Madge Oberholtzer’s 1925 abduction from this city led to a massive decline in membership of its state’s most prominent organization. For 10 points, D. C. Stephenson created the largest chapter of the KKK in the 1920s from what city? ■END■

ANSWER: Indianapolis, Indiana
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2023 Chicago Open08/05/2023Y1100%0%0%76.00