Tag: black history
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PIKES PICK: Celebrate Black history at the museum
Explore the powerful local history of the local Black community since the city’s founding at the Black History Month tours and permanent exhibit at Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, including the Cotton Club’s legendary Fannie Mae Duncan. Tuesdays through Saturdays. cspm.org – Linda Navarro
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Two weeks after rejection, Colorado Springs City Council marks Black History Month
Colorado Springs City Council announced a proclamation recognizing February as Black History Month at Tuesday’s meeting, two weeks after a first attempt at a proclamation was rejected by the body. After the delay, it had appeared that the recognition might not take place. Shirley Martinez, outgoing president of the MLK Legacy Committee, said that this…
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Black cowboys unveiled
By Acoma GaitherHistory Colorado Just thinking about the Old West can evoke images of vast landscapes dotted with canyons, cacti, and critters, occasionally presided over by a kettle of vultures. The people within them, at least in most popular portrayals, are usually mounted on horseback, often chasing herds of cattle over open prairie. And they’re…
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Celebrate freedom at these Juneteenth festivals in Colorado Springs
Juneteenth is Thursday, and there are several ways to celebrate here in the Springs. Also called Jubilee Day, this federal holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. It’s held annually on June 19, the same day Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, back in 1865 to announce the freedom of more than…
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Motherhood wasn’t part of the mission for first Black female fighter pilot, until it was
Rochelle Kimbrell, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, is a mom to two teen boys. Being a mother, she says, is “way more challenging than being a fighter pilot.”
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Motherhood wasn’t part of the mission for first Black female fighter pilot, until it was
Rochelle Kimbrell, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, is a mom to two teen boys. Being a mother, she says, is “way more challenging than being a fighter pilot.”
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Finding home: The little-known story of a Black orphanage in southern Colorado
PUEBLO • Black history hides in a dark, dusty bunker on the tumbleweed plains of southeast Colorado where World War I-era chemical weapons were once stored. Stored here now are reminders of a much different place. The Lincoln Home “was the only known orphanage of its type in Colorado,” reads the one and only paragraph…
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Colorado Springs at 150 years | City was home to Green Book safe havens
Editor’s note: This July, as Colorado Springs gears up for its 150th birthday on the 31st, The Gazette has prepared a series of articles on the history of our city. Check back for fascinating glimpses into the people and events that have shaped Colorado Springs into the landmark it is today. The mid-20th century was a…
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Making black history on Capitol Hill in the 1960s | Column by Robert D. Loevy
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Before Black History Month ends, let’s celebrate one of its great heroes, Clarence Mitchell Jr., the Washington lobbyist for the NAACP during the 1960s. That was when Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the legislative fruit…
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Making black history on Capitol Hill in the 1960s | Column by Robert D. Loevy
Before Black History Month ends, let’s celebrate one of its great heroes, Clarence Mitchell Jr., the Washington lobbyist for the NAACP during the 1960s. That was when Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the legislative fruit of the civil rights movement. The Rev. Martin Luther King…