United States – Colorado
Cathay Williams (1850- )
Cathay Williams is the only documented African American woman who served as a soldier in the Regular U.S. Army in...
Joe Louis [Barrow] (1914-1981)
Joe Louis Barrow, known popularly as Joe Louis, was the second African American heavyweight boxing champion in the 20th Century. ...
Edward L. Miles (1939-2016)
Edward Lancelot Miles, the Bloedel Professor Emeritus of Marine and Public Affairs at the University of Washington, Seattle, was a pioneer...
(1870) Henry O. Wagoner, Jr. Celebrates The Ratification Of The 15th Amendment To The United States Constitution
In May, 1870, Henry O. Wagoner, Jr., the twenty year old son of one of black Denver’s leading civil rights...
Wellington E. Webb (1941- )
Wellington Webb was born in Chicago in 1941. He came to Denver at a very early age and before entering...
(1848) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
February 2, 1848 In the name of Almighty God The United States of America and the United Mexican States animated...
S. George Philander (1942- )
Samuel George Harker Philander is Knox Taylor Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University. Born in Caledon, Republic of South Africa...
Ruth Cave Flowers (1902-1980)
Born in Colorado Springs in 1902, Ruth Cave began her notable career in unpromising circumstances. Her parents were divorced before...
Dr. Justina Ford (1871-1952)
The child who would become Denver, Colorado’s first and only woman doctor in the early decades of the twentieth century...
