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Pride & Progress Gala
Join The Black American West Museum for Our 2010 Annual Pride and Progress Fund-raising Gala
July 31st, 2010
Reception & Silent Auction 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Dinner & Program 7:00 -10:00 pm
Park Hill Golf Club, 4141 E. 35th Avenue, Denver, CO 80207
Honorees: Lu Vason
Posthumously: Geraldine Stepp Evans & Opalanga Pugh
For additional information contact the Black American West Museum & Heritage Center at 303.482.2242
Tickets must be purchased by July 21, 2010
Haunted History Ghost Tour
The Black American West Museum located at 3091 California Street, Denver, CO, 80205 is hosting a series of Haunted History Ghost Tours. The ghost tour begins at the Black American West Museum in the former home of Dr. Justina L. Ford, Colorado's first African American woman doctor. Each year hundreds of museum visitors from all over the world report watching a mysterious woman walking briskly from room to room, then disappearing.
The staff and volunteers of the museum have also reported, the sound of footsteps, when no one else was in the museum. Others have accounted being gently touched by an unseen hand. Several children recently stated that Dr. Ford stroked their cheeks while sitting on her front steps. The museum is furthermore reportedly haunted by a male presence, some say it is her second husband, Alfred Allen, 18 years her junior and a second female ghost, perhaps her sister who died after a tragic car accident.
The guided tour continues along Welton Street, once known as the Harlem of the West. Five Points and the Curtis Park district, northeast of downtown, was a sanctuary for the African American community. Ever since Benny Hooper strolled into town in the 1920s and opened up his club/recreation center/hotel for black servicemen, the streets of Five Points have whispered Jazz. Billy Holiday, Josephine Baker, Duke Ellington and many others performed along this historic corridor. Five Points was a city within a city, which had barbershops, saloons, pool halls, doctors, lawyers, funeral homes, brothels and bootleg bars. Some say late at night you can still hear strains of Jazz music and laughter floating from the doors of former night - clubs. Are you brave enough to visit the site of the most dangerous bar in Denver, where several people were murdered! Visit the site of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass's sons, where they opened one of Denver's first mortuaries.
Rsvp your guided haunted house and ghost tours in historic Five Points during the month of October, Tuesday - Saturday days and/or nights. The cost is $20.00 per person, discounts for not for profits, schools and large groups. Package includes guided haunted museum tour, ghost walking tour, hot chocolate and cookies, rsvps only. Call 303-482-2242 to register early, last year tours were sold out. Or email us info@blackamericanwestmuseum.com to set up your tour! First come, first served.
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