Gilbert Cruter
School Administrator
First male black teacher in Denver Public Schools; U.S. Department of State, Goodwill Ambassador to West Africa, 1955; U.S. Cultural Affairs Officer to Eastern Nigeria, 1961-1963; Congressional Liaison Officer...
Major Oleta Lawanda Crain
First African American Woman to enter the military from the State of Colorado (1942). Entering as a private and retiring 20 years later as a Major.
Crain joined the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington D.C. as a...
Lt. Col. John W. Mosley, Jr.
Administrator
Native Denverite; World War II flyer; air scientist; one of the draftsmen of the integration orders of the Air Force for President Harry S. Truman; special assistant to James Farmer, assistant Secretary of...
Index originally created by Henrietta Bromwell in 1933 of 31,000 items regarding biographies and portraits of politicians, miners, club women, newspaper editors, artists, businessmen, legislators, early settlers, settlements, mines, geographical...