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
1968 May 16
Wounded African American Vietnam War veteran
[1965-1970?]
Hiawatha Davis addressing Afro-American Unity
1967 August 27
American Woodmen Meeting
Five Points Branch Denver Public Library
[1970-1975?]
African American men in barbershop
1950-1970
Leroy Smith and Muhammad Ali
Eritrean Family 1984
Ethiopian Engineer Tsegaye Hailu 1991
Somali Girl Studying 1993
