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Colorado's first African-American appellate judge Honorable Claudia J. Jordan (1953–) 1996 Colorado's first African-American woman county court judge Chief Roderick Juniel 2020 First African American Chief of the Denver Fire Department Reverend Leon Kelly (1956–) 2022 Oglesvie L. "Sonny" Lawson (1893–1969) 1973
African American pioneers of Colorado First name Last name Image Birth–death Year Description Charles Autobees (1812–1882) 1847 Trapper, trader, and founder of Autobees, Colorado: James Beckwourth (c. 1799–c. 1866) 1822 (c.) American mountain man, fur trader, and explorer. He was mixed-race and born into slavery in Virginia.
8.1 American football. 8.2 Baseball. 8.3 Basketball. 8.4 Boxing. 8.5 Martial arts. ... This is a list of some notable people who have lived in the City of Aurora ...
Folks from all over," she told CBS News Colorado's Mekialaya White. According to the state of Colorado, in 2023, 4.18% of our population was Black or African American alone. It's a population that ...
Dearfield, Colorado, one of 14 western towns to create communities for African Americans, as inspired by Booker T. Washington, it is now a ghost town; Five Points, Denver neighborhood of Denver that was inhabited by African Americans; Fort Garland in Costilla County - From 1876 to 1879, Black Buffalo Soldiers were stationed at the fort
Elijah Jovan McClain (February 25, 1996 – August 30, 2019) was a 23-year-old black American man from Aurora, Colorado, who was killed as a result of being illegally [1] injected with 500 mg of ketamine by paramedics after being forcibly detained by police officers.
The following is a list of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States with large African American populations. As a result of slavery, more than half of African Americans live in the South. [1] The data is sourced from the 2010 and 2020 United States Censuses.
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the U.S. State of Colorado. It includes both current and historical newspapers. Many of the historical newspapers were published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the number of African Americans in Colorado rose from 1,163 in 1870 to 11,453 in 1910. [1]