NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Gary Jackson about Lincoln Hills, a mountain resort built for Black families during the Jim Crow era. His great-grandfather owned land there.
” In Denver, there were 17,000 registered Klansmen, including the mayor of Denver, Ben Stapleton. We had a U.S. senator that was a Klansman. There was a governor that was a Klansman. That is the historical significance of Lincoln Hills, that despite the influence of the KKK throughout Colorado, there was a particular county, Gilpin County in Colorado, where the majority of the people in Gilpin County welcomed Black people. And during the summer, there could be as many as 5,000 Black travelers.”
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