Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library

Juanita Ross Gray

Request for Nominations - 2023 Juanita Gray Community Service Awards

View of the preparation for Valley Highway (I-25) construction, in Denver, Colorado; shows graded earth, houses, and a car.

The MetroDPA Social Equity Program: Down Payment Assistance for Denver's Redlined Residents & Their Descendants

George Morrison, Sr.MusicianViolinist, orchestra leader, music teacher, churchman and philanthropist; served on Mayor's Committee on Music, 1947-1960; furnished music on the famous Denver Post Special Train to Cheyenne, Wyoming Frontier Days Rodeo; received the 50-year pin from Mile-Hi Chapter of American Red Cross, 1969; composer and arranger of jazz, spirituals and classics; thirty-second degree Mason. Inducted 1973.

JAZZ IN FIVE POINTS: A BRIEF HISTORY: PART TWO

Autographed Photo of Duke Ellington

Jazz in Five Points: A Brief History: Part One

View of St. Cajetan's Catholic Church (now St. Cajetan's Center), 1190 9th (Ninth) Street in the Auraria neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The church is surrounded by rubble, the remains of buildings destroyed for the Auraria Higher Education Center campus.

The Displaced Aurarian Scholarship & Where To Go For Documentation

Exterior of the future Women's Bank, circa 1978. The Women's Bank Records, WH2365, Box 1

'A Bank For All People': Remembering The Women's Bank

The Black Panther

BCAARL Adds to Black Panther Party Newspaper Collection with Recent Acquisition

Scott Brady, star of "Canon City," and Palmer Hoyt, editor and publisher of the Denver Post from 1946-1971, with a Denver Post newspaper, look at the headlines in an office in Denver, Colorado. A sheet with "The Denver Post Deadline Schedule" sits on the desk. The headline, about the 1947 prison break on which "Canon City" was based, reads: "2 Slain, 9 Captured, In State Pen Break, Stir Crazy Cons Lead Pen Break."

Special Collections and Digital Archives Blogs: Staff Favorites From 2021

This painting depicts an aerial view of the Colorado River as it winds its way through the banded hills of the Grand Canyon. The painting was created in an original and distinctive technique that the artist calls “Neogeometric.”

Artist Burnis Calvin Day

The more the merrier on a slide

The George Washington Carver Day Nursery, Denver’s First Racially Integrated Day Care

"'Fox' - Frontier or Plains Hotel, Cheyenne, Wyo." (fox relief sculpture), 1930. PhotoBox: 1, Page: 21, Julius Peter Ambrusch Papers (WH2473)

Why Everything In The Archives Isn't Digitized (Yet)

The First Colorado Saint

The First African American Coloradoan To Be Nominated for Sainthood