This gallery highlights the long history that African Americans share in the founding of Colorado as a state and the establishment of our many vibrant communities.
John Taylor and Dick Charlie
[1880-1910?]
Isom Dart
[1870-1880?]
Portrait of a Denver police officer
[1883-1886?]
Pine Ridge Agency, S. D. trooper, Buffalo Soldier Corporal
[March 1891]
Ute and interpreter
1890
The last remaining
1920-1930
Station Number Three, Denver Fire Department
[1910-1930?]
Postcard of Otha Rice on motorcycle
Dr. Holmes at Work
Cosmopolitan Branch
[1933-1940?]
Camp Nizhoni
1937
Radio personality Leroy Smith
1950-1970
Veterans Day parade
1948 April 11
Boy at DPL branch with Black History books
[1967-1970?]
Burnis McCloud and Duke Ellington
1950-1960
Aretha Franklin and group at NAACP Convention, June 1965
Jun 1965
Black Panther family
1968
Resolution was for complete Negro equality (and integration) in school