Denver Public Library apologizes for removal of Black history displays at Blair-Caldwell library

The Denver Post: Tamara Rhone wants to know what happened to a showcase inside Denver’s Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library that displayed memorabilia from her father’s pioneering Black law firm.

A few months ago, staff removed the display case in the library’s upstairs museum and all of the belongings inside it. The collection that represented her father, Robert Rhone, and his law partner, Irving Andrews, is still missing.

“I used to come up on the second and third floor and bathe in the history,” Rhone said. “We need to know our history. Our children need to know our history. This was the facility that was built to honor that.”

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