Local Denver Politics

Article “John Zapien District #9 Candidate for City Council” Globeville city council election 1971

Article on why it is so important for Chicanos to vote, 09-01-1970

Pamphlet from Sam Sandos campaign for city councilman, District #3, 1983

Article on a council recall election for District 9 (Globeville), against incumbent Eugene DiManna, and former La Raza Unida candidate Sal Carpio, 02-12-1975

State Representative Rich Castro and Congresswoman Pat Schroeder outside the Colorado State Capitol Building, 1980s

Article on La Raza Unida party and what it is doing to help Chicanos, mostly in Pueblo, but this is a larger movement, 05-03-1976

Photo of Hispanic politicians at Cinco de Mayo celebration in Denver: Ramona Martinez, Cecilia Garcia, Henry Cisneros, Debbie Ortega, and Polly Baca, May 1985

Photo of Mexican Americans attending a meeting of the Good Americans Organization, c. 1954

CW: Language; example of racist hate mail Rich Castro received, c. 1970

Picture of Bernard Valdez, employee at Colorado Welfare Department in Denver, 02-07-1965

Actions taken by the Westside Action Ministry to protest racial issues at West Side High School, 03-01-1969

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Rodolfo Corky Gonzales speaks during a Corky for Mayor event, Denver, 1967

Denver mayoral candidate Federico Peña at a rally on the steps of the City and County building in Denver, 1983

Denver’s first Hispanic mayor, Federico Peña, sworn in on the steps of the City and County Building, 1983