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Article: HIDDEN HISTORY LANDMARKS ACROSS THE STATE TELL THE STORY OF BLACK COLORADANS' HERITAGE AND CULTURE.(Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- February 7, 1999
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Byline: Bob Jackson News Staff Writer
They are simple monuments: A building that was the Pueblo Colored Orphanage and Old Folks Home. A pane of stained glass at the state Capitol, shining in tribute to former slave Clara Brown.
They are among the places in Colorado that mark contributions to history sometimes forgotten even by blacks.
Landmarks can fill critical gaps in black history, particularly in the West, said C.J. White, chairman of the African American Studies Department at Metropolitan State College of Denver.
``It's important because the black population in Colorado is small when compared with the South and the North Central ...
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Article: CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY
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... ... the achievements of black people." Men and women such as Barney Ford, William Hardin, mountaineer James Beckwourth and Lucy Phillips ... statehood. The names of Hardin and Inter Ocean Hotel owner Barney Ford were on the territorial admission letters to Wyoming and Colorado ...
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