How a Colorado law school dug into its history to celebrate its unsung Black graduates

By Rebecca Ciota, Assistant Teaching Professor, Law School, University of Colorado Boulder

Class portraits line the hallways of the University of Colorado Law School, the faces of former students gazing down at the building’s current inhabitants. In a dimly lit recess in the library hangs the 1899 class portrait. Its year is incorrectly labeled as 1898, and the students are left unnamed.

In the photo, 20 men stand. Only one of them is Black. I can tell you that he was Franklin LaVeale Anderson, a successful Boulder, Colorado, businessman…

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