A debate over Black civil rights in Colorado’s final territorial Legislature

By: Chase Woodruff

Outlets: Colorado Newsline

Published: February 6, 2026

Words: 1,244

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 3 days ago


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A welcome respite from freezing winter temperatures came to the northern Front Range on Sunday, Feb. 6, 1876, reported the Denver Times. The warm weather caused the city’s churches to be “well filled with those who went to worship and those who went to see what their neighbors had to wear.”

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