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Five Points, Denver, Colorado (ca. 1885- )
Denver, Colorado’s Five Points community originated in the 1880s as an upper middle-class neighborhood for professional and business men. The...
Barney L. Ford (1822-1902)
Born in 1822 to a Virginia slave and a white plantation owner, Barney L. Ford grew up in South Carolina...
Black American West Museum (1971- )
Paul W. Stewart, founder of the Black American West Museum, grew up in Iowa playing cowboys and Indians with his...
Camp Nizhoni (1924-1945)
Denver women sponsored the formation of a Phillis Wheatley branch of the Young Women’s Christian Association in 1916, and in...
George Morrison (1891-1974)
George Morrison dreamed of playing violin with a major orchestra. As things stood for black musicians in the early twentieth...
Hattie McDaniel (1895-1952)
Hattie McDaniel is best known as the first Black Oscar winner. She won the award on February 29, 1940, for Best Supporting...
Joseph D.D. Rivers (ca. 1856-1937)
Joseph D.D. Rivers’ name appeared on the second page of The Colorado Statesman (1895–1961), a respected African American weekly newspaper,...
John H. Stuart (1854-1910)
The citizens of Colorado elected their first African American legislator in 1894, eighteen years after gaining statehood in 1876. The...
Dr. Justina Ford (1871-1952)
The child who would become Denver, Colorado’s first and only woman doctor in the early decades of the twentieth century...
George L. Brown (1926-2005)
Although George L. Brown was born and raised in Lawrence, Kansas, he played a significant roll in Colorado politics for...
William Jefferson Hardin (1831-1889)
One of Colorado Territory’s most interesting African American citizens spoke eloquently on behalf of black suffrage between 1863 and 1873,...
Henry O. Wagoner (1816-1901)
Image Ownership: Public Domain Born in 1816 in Maryland to a freedwoman mother and a German father, Henry O. Wagoner...