Education

Del Pueblo Elementary School in West Side prepares to open, 04-01-1974

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Article on a donation of films on Mexican culture to Greenlee Elementary, a predominately Chicano school, to help with history and cultural education, 1974

Article on a summer school program behind Greenlee Elementary for Chicano history, culture, art; 08-01-1973

Article on a Chicano school program at First Bethany Lutheran Community Center, 03-01-1973

Article on the Academia del Barrio Chicano cultural and history classes for children in Westside, 1971

Photo of Westwood School, which later became Castro Elementary, in the Westwood neighborhood

Report by Denver Public Schools breaking down every school by ethnicity, 10-02-1970

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Article “Educacion para adultos en Baker” adult education classes at Baker Jr. High, article in Spanish, 1971

Article on efforts to get more Latinx students into medical schools and health professions 

Children listen to a story by a Denver Public Library employee in a Denver Park, 1920s-1930

Children’s day nursery in Five Points neighborhood, Denver, 1960

St. Cajetan’s Elementary, near 9th and Lawrence in the Auraria neighborhood, late 1940s

Students and nuns prepare for St. Cajetan’s Winter Festival, 1961

Article on Latino inmates at the Colorado State Penitentiary who argue if Chicano students learned more about their own history, they’d do better in school and be less prone to a life of crime