COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – As the country continues to celebrate Black History Month, the founder of the African American Historical and Genealogical Society of Colorado Springs (AAHGSCS) says it’s a topic they never stop documenting.
Candice McKnight, a third-generation Colorado Springs native, founded the museum in 2009. McKnight says after her great-great-grandmother heard the freedom bells, she left the McKinney plantation in Texas and moved to southern Colorado.
The AAHGSCS collects and preserves any and all artifacts that tell the story of Colorado Springs’ Black community throughout the centuries. It has books, newspapers, clothing items, replicas, paintings, pamphlets and more…