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African American civil rights workers -- Colorado -- Denver.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

CLARENCE AND FAIRFAX HOLMES PAPERS

 Collection
Identifier: WH1270
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The collection contains documents, audio-visual materials and photographs ranging from 1892 to 1980. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs, papers, audiotapes and film reels of the many organizations with which Clarence and Fairfax Holmes were active. Personal, business and family materials are also included. Scrapbooks, correspondence and personal papers provide a glimpse into Denver's African American community from the turn of the twentieth century through the Civil Rights...
Dates: TBD

Henry (Bud) and Barbara James Papers

 Collection
Identifier: ARL160
Scope and Contents

Contains newspaper clippings on the events in Alabama during the March to Montgomery in 1965, and the Poor Peoples Campaign in Washington, D.C. and Denver in 1968, March on Montgomery organizational papers, report from witness at Montgomery March, a large banner with signatures from Coloradans that supported the March on Montgomery.

Dates: 1965-1968, 2008-2009