Any look at Madera during the Roaring Twenties will include politics, prohibition and prostitution. Women won the right to vote; moonshine flowed freely, and prostitution, recently outlawed, flourished, especially on the west side of the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks.
It was, indeed, a roaring time. But there is another piece of our past that recent research has brought to light.
In addition to bad booze, bigotry in bedsheets raised its ugly head and tried to reach its hands into Madera High School.