Denver

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• SOURCE: Denver Post
  6/6/2021
  

  The KKK Ruled Denver a Century Ago. Its Legacy is Still Felt

  Historian Robert Goldberg describes how the Klan worked in the 1920s to dominate local goverment in the Colorado city and the state government. 

• SOURCE: Denver Post
  8-3-13
  

  Historic Riverside Cemetery embodies Denver's past

  Denver's city of the dead is very much alive.Like Mark Twain, Riverside Cemetery has had its premature demise reported more than once. The city's premiere burial ground opened on July 1, 1876, at 5201 Brighton Blvd. on the Denver/Adams county line.In 1901, historian Jerome Smiley gushed, "(Riverside) is a most beautiful city of the dead, adorned with shrubbery and lawns and costly monuments, so that one feels in the midst of it all, that rivers of human love and devotion flow up and down all its walks and drives."...