4th Winter Lecture of 2024: The Legacy of Fannie Mae Duncan and the Cotton Club
First Lutheran Church 1515 North Cascade Ave, Colorado Springs, CO, United StatesGuest Lecturer: Kathleen Esmiol In the 1870s, Black families were drawn to Colorado Springs, where the city’s visionary founder General William Jackson Palmer established integrated public schools and job opportunities that offered equal pay for equal work. Black businesses prospered. Sadly, the tide turned with Palmer’s death in 1909, and Blacks struggled against the shifting […]
