Denver Public Library Rocky Mountain News CollectionCesar Chavez, pictured at left with Colorado Chicano activist Corky Gonzales, visited Colorado several times.
Colorado's history is so interwoven with that of its Latino and Chicano residents that the state constitution was originally written in English, German and Spanish.
Nicki Gonzales is a history professor at Regis University and a member on History Colorado's State Historian Council. Gonzales talked to Colorado Matters about how a lack of landmarks reduces a group of people and their history into stereotypes.