Moya Hansen
Staff member of the Colorado Historical Society
Moya Hansen focused her graduate studies at the University of Colorado at Denver on Denver’s African American population and the Five Points area. As a long-time staff member of the Colorado Historical Society, she implemented the organization’s African American Advisory Council in 1992 and was project director for It’s Jazz!: Black Musicians in Colorado, 1890 – 1950 and Buffalo Soldiers West. Her participation in the series of videos produced by the Alice G. Reynolds Memorial Fund on the activities of Denver’s Congress on Racial Equality has acquainted her with Denverites’ efforts to integrate the community and promote racial equality in the 1960s.
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Five Points, Denver, Colorado (ca. 1885- )
Denver, Colorado’s Five Points community originated in the 1880s as an upper middle-class neighborhood for professional and business men. The...
Barney L. Ford (1822-1902)
Born in 1822 to a Virginia slave and a white plantation owner, Barney L. Ford grew up in South Carolina...
Black American West Museum (1971- )
Paul W. Stewart, founder of the Black American West Museum, grew up in Iowa playing cowboys and Indians with his...
Camp Nizhoni (1924-1945)
Denver women sponsored the formation of a Phillis Wheatley branch of the Young Women’s Christian Association in 1916, and in...
George Morrison (1891-1974)
George Morrison dreamed of playing violin with a major orchestra. As things stood for black musicians in the early twentieth...
Hattie McDaniel (1895-1952)
Hattie McDaniel is best known as the first Black Oscar winner. She won the award on February 29, 1940, for Best Supporting...
Joseph D.D. Rivers (ca. 1856-1937)
Joseph D.D. Rivers’ name appeared on the second page of The Colorado Statesman (1895–1961), a respected African American weekly newspaper,...
John H. Stuart (1854-1910)
The citizens of Colorado elected their first African American legislator in 1894, eighteen years after gaining statehood in 1876. The...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
