Chin Lin Sou (1836–1894) was a Chinese American business owner who immigrated to the United States in the 1850s, settling in Colorado by 1870. He defied racial barriers to establish himself as an esteemed business and civic leader in Colorado, and served…

Ellison Onizuka (1946–86) was an astronaut for the US Space Shuttle program who earned degrees at the University of Colorado in Boulder before perishing in the 1986 Challenger shuttle disaster. Onizuka was Colorado’s highest-profile astronaut and is…

Three of the Shitara sisters, known in the contemporary press as “the Nisei Sisters,” were prisoners at the Amache concentration camp who helped two Germans escape from a nearby prisoner-of-war camp. During their trial, the third treason trial of World…