Colorado Protest Marches

Coloradans have never been shy about taking to the streets to voice their opinions on the matters of the day. Here's a look at some memorable protests from Colorado history. 

Mexican Americans, members of the Crusade for Justice (La Crusada Para Justicia) march in protest down 15th (Fifteenth) street in Denver, Colorado. They carry a large banner written in both English and Spanish, which reads: "It Is Better to Die On Your Feet Than to Keep On Living On Your Knees," "Es Mejor Morir de Pie, Que Seguir Viviendo de Rodillas."
Students at the University of Colorado at Boulder carry hand lettered signs: "Strike! protest the genocide in Vietnam," "On strike protest Nixon and his war in insanity," "On Strike no more war," "Stop the atrocities in Asia and on campus on strike," "On strike for peace," "End the war shut it down," "Shut it down for your own sake." Campus buildings are in the background.
View of an antiwar demonstration in Denver, Colorado; shows Mexican-American men including "Corky" Gonzales (with banner).
Native American men and women walk a picket line to protest perceived discrimination by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Signs read: "Indins [sic] are red, B. I. A. what are you," "Stop persecuting Indians," and, "Give us BIA."
People crowd a street in Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado, in support of UMW coal miners on strike against CF&I. Letters on a business read: "[Pink] Lady."
Students (perhaps 1500) sit on lawn and sidewalks at the University of Colorado at Boulder during This anti-war protest. An electric, campus grounds maintenance cart is parked near the foreground, by bushes, trees, a street lamp, and several people with bicycles.
United Farm Workers of America (UFW) supporters picket the Denver City and County building in Denver, Colorado. The picketers protest Judge Robert Cummins' decision to jail UFW coordinator Jerry Ryan for refusing to remove his "Boycott Gallo" button at the beginning of his trial for a prior arrest for picketing. One picket carries a sign with a skull and crossbones that reads: "Cummins drinks Gallo Wine."
Protestors who include Lindsay Jones and Mrs. Kenneth Gott march in a picket line near the Denver Public Library at 1331 Broadway in the Civic Center neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The protestors hold signs that read: "Reducat[ion] is Brain Washing" and "American Boys Being Drafted While Commie Propagandize Their Children."
African American men march in probably a protest parade with horse drawn wagons, farm implements and wheeled carts on Seventeenth Street, in Denver, Colorado; shows the Johnson Building, the Denver Club, the Savoy Hotel, pedestrians, automobiles, and Sign reads: "New - Times," and has a barometer.
Students crowd the interior of the administration building at the University of Colorado at Boulder during a war protest. Seated people on second and third floor mezzanines let their lower legs dangle through the vertical bars. Men at the center read a paper, and a man in the foreground has a clenched fist stenciled on his flannel shirt.
Women march in support of UMW coal miners on strike against CF&I in Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado; they carry a sign: "All Worthy Women My Sisters Have Ever Found It Thus If We Are True Friends To Others They'll Be True Friends To Us." A Trinidad Electric Railway trolley is by the parade; lettered brick building reads: "Trinidad Carriage Mfg. Co."
Photo of a handwritten sign taped to the back of a protester's wheelchair at the ADAPT protest against the American Health Care Association's 1994 Las Vegas convention. Photographer unknown.
Boys march in support of UMW coal miners on strike against CF&I in Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado, carrying signs: "We Represent the CF&I Prosperity Slaves," "Let The Public take Over The Mines," "Colorado Civilization Turn Us Out in the Rain," and "Has the Governor any Respect for the State?" Men crowd sidewalks by brick businesses.