Thursday, October 21, 2010

COLORADO, DENVER

FIVE POINTS NEIGHBORHOOD
 

The Five Points neighborhood includes Welton Street, the only predominantly African-American owned commercial strip in America. Five Points was a popular stop for African-American jazz musicians--including Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, and countless others. They stopped in Denver on their way between the midwest and west coast.

BLAIR CALDWELL AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH LIBRARY, FIVE POINTS NEIGHBORHOOD 



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