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A letter written to Billie Arlene Grant by Anthony Ray in response to her inquiry about experiences of African Americans in Boulder. In it he discusses the University of Colorado and higher education for African Americans; people living in the Goss/Grove neighborhood, and the careers they went on to.

Newspaper clippings about musician George Morrison. The original clippings can be found in the Carnegie Library vertical file "Ethnic Groups - African Americans."

One vertical file that contains information clipped from newspapers, magazines, and other publications on: various Boulder County African American issues, news and personalities, including noted sports stars, the famous jazz musican George Morrison, and one-time Boulder resident Oliver T. Jackson who in 1911 founded a town of Dearfield in Weld County. Also included are: a Boulder County history article about the showing of the movie' "Birth of a Nation"; the history of Lincoln Hills and Camp Nizhoni, which were the only African American resort and girls' camp just six miles South of Nederland in Gilpin County; and articles about Eddie Taylor's Everest ascent as part of the first all-Black summit team.

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.