United States – Colorado
William “Curly” Neal (1849-1936)
William “Curly” Neal helped turn a frontier western mining camp in the Santa Catalina Mountains of Arizona into a booming...
Dearfield, Colorado
On May 5, 1910 after four years of searching for a location that would accommodate two hundred families, Oliver Toussaint...
Condoleezza Rice (1954- )
Condoleezza Rice has earned distinction as a scholar, expert on international politics, and with her appointments as the first African...
Shirley Graham Du Bois (1896 – 1977)
Musicologist, playwright, novelist and political activist Lola Shirley Graham, born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1896, became the second wife to...
Madam C. J. Walker (1867-1919)
Madam C.J. Walker was born Sarah Breedlove to former slaves, Owen and Minerva Breedlove in Delta, Louisiana on December 23,...
Henry O. Wagoner (1816-1901)
Image Ownership: Public Domain Born in 1816 in Maryland to a freedwoman mother and a German father, Henry O. Wagoner...
William Jefferson Hardin (1831-1889)
One of Colorado Territory’s most interesting African American citizens spoke eloquently on behalf of black suffrage between 1863 and 1873,...
George L. Brown (1926-2005)
Although George L. Brown was born and raised in Lawrence, Kansas, he played a significant roll in Colorado politics for...
Nolle Smith (1888-1982)
Nolle Smith, cowboy, politician, diplomat, was born on his parents’ ranch in Horse Creek, Wyoming in 1888 but grew up...
