Details
Title

Charles Nilon collection.

Date

1859-1991

Call Number

756

Contents

2 boxes.

Description

This collection contains photographs and papers about African-Americans in Boulder County, Colorado. Included are family photographs of the McVey, Epperson, Lewis, Morrison, Reeves, and Lingham families; photographs and information about the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Second Baptist Church of Boulder; and biographical information about Afro-American pioneers and early gold miners. Also newspaper clippings about Dearfield, Colorado, an African-American community in Weld County.

History

Charles H. Nilon was professor emeritus of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder and was director of the Black Studies Program.

Terms of Use

RIGHTS: Materials in this collection may be used freely for any purpose, with attribution to the Carnegie Library for Local History, Boulder. No duplicated materials may be deposited or placed on file in any other archive, museum, library or similar repository. Questions of copyright are the responsibility of the user.

Format

Photographs.
Documents.

Author

Nilon, Charles H., 1916-1991

Subjects

Nilon, Charles H., 1916-1991
African Americans--Colorado--Boulder County
African American churches--Colorado--Boulder
Pioneers--Colorado--Boulder County

Acquisition Note

Charles Nilon Gift 1989

Ownership Note

The material in this collection was collected by Charles Nilon from African-American families living in Boulder County, from the Boulder and Colorado census, and local newspapers.

Note

All materials in this folder are from the private collection of Charles Nilon, although some unidentified photographs are from the Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum.

Pages

O.T. Jackson documents.
O.T. Jackson documents.
Call Number 756-1-13
Date [1920-1939]
Contents 1 folder.
Description This folder contains photocopied newspaper clippings about Oliver T. Jackson, the town of Dearfield (a black community in Weld County) and Jackson's Resort in Boulder. Jackson's Resort was located on the northeast corner of 55th and Aprapahoe Avenue. Handwritten notes, low-resolution photocopies of photographs, and an obituary for Jackson are also included in this folder.

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Boulder's Black Community lists, 1880 and 1901.
Boulder's Black Community lists, 1880 and 1901.
Call Number 756-1-14
Date 1880-1915
Contents 1 folder.
Description This folder contains two lists of Black residents transcribed from the 1880 and 1901 census as well as a photocopied newspaper article from 1915 about a banquet held by the Boulderado hotel's African American staff.

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Boulder's Black Community Obituary References, 1880-1949.
Boulder's Black Community Obituary References, 1880-1949.
Call Number 756-1-15
Date 1880-1949
Contents 1 folder.
Description This folder contains a packet of 3x5 inch cards and 2 legal pages of references to obituaries of Black residents in the local papers between the years of 188- to 1949.

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Civil Rights Newsletter, 1948.
Civil Rights Newsletter, 1948.
Call Number 756-1-16
Date 1948
Contents 1 folder.
Description This folder contains a photocopy of the premier issue of the Civil Rights Newsletter, published December 17, 1948 by the Civil Rights Congress, copied from the historical collections of the University of Colorado Libraries. Included is the financial report for the Boulder Chapter.

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Civil rights march in Alabama newspaper clippings.
Civil rights march in Alabama newspaper clippings.
Call Number 756-1-17
Date 1963-1965
Contents 1 folder.
Description This folder contains newspaper clippings about the civil rights march from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery in 1965. A Boulder delegation was represented. The folder also includes a safety bulletin printed by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights in Birmingham dated 1963.

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Race and ethnicity lists.
Race and ethnicity lists.
Call Number 756-1-18
Date 1989
Contents 1 folder.
Description This folder contains two lists: Collections at the University of Colorado, Western History archive Pertaining to Race and Ethnicity, [undated] and Genealogical and Demographic Sources compiled by David Hays, 1989.

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Charles L. Ingram obituary.
Charles L. Ingram obituary.
Call Number 756-1-19
Date 1941
Contents 1 folder.
Description A photocopy of an obituary for Charles Ingram, dated January 11, 1941.

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John Robinson newspaper clipping.
John Robinson newspaper clipping.
Call Number 756-1-20
Date [1890]
Contents 1 folder.
Description Folder contains a low-resolution photocopy of a clipping from the Daily Camera concerning John Robinson, believed to be circa 1890.

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James Winn documents.
James Winn documents.
Call Number 756-1-21
Date 1952-1962
Contents 1 folder.
Description This folder contains photocopied newspaper articles about James Winn as well as a photocopy of a one-page, typed biography.

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George Morrison documents.
George Morrison documents.
Call Number 756-1-22
Date 1970-1986
Contents 1 folder.
Description This folder contains two newspaper clippings about George Morrison, Colorado Heritage Magazine (1986, issue 2) which contains the article, "Two Gentlemen of Note: George Morrison, Paul Whiteman, and their Jazz" by Joan Reese, the poem "I'll Do the Best I Can" written and signed by George Morrison, and a brief biography of the Morrison and Reeves families.

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Black business ventures in Boulder list.
Black business ventures in Boulder list.
Call Number 756-1-23
Date undated.
Contents 1 folder.
Description This folder contains an undated list of 24 businesses owned by African Americans in Boulder.

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Blacks in Colorado printed materials.
Blacks in Colorado printed materials.
Call Number 756-1-24
Date undated
Contents 1 folder.
Description This folder contains a copy of the Colorado Magazine article, "Negroes in Colorado" by James R. Harvey (circa 1940) and seven pages of type-written notes compiling census information on African Americans in Colorado from 1860 to 1900.

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