About

This website aims to shed light on the experiences of Black women who attended Colorado College in the 1990s. Photos were extracted from the yearbooks of that time period with the hopes of learning more about the lives of Black women at CC in the 90s. Although there were not many photos to be found, there was still value in the act of searching. The lack of photos was the result of archival “silences” (further discussed in Silence and Sound), which often impact Black women. 

In spite of those silences, the photos that were found were able to illuminate a legacy of leadership, community, athleticism, and sometimes even joy. Although some of these women go unnamed in the archive, their photos live on to tell their stories. To learn more about these women, please visit the timeline on the homepage. It will also be helpful to peruse the analysis section of the site, where more can be learned about the experiences of Black women from an academic standpoint.

This site exists as the final work of a larger project about the relationships to Colorado College that have been formed by Black women over time. It examines the world of CC almost three decades before the creation of the campus group Black Women at Colorado College. Through these photos and the accompanying analyses, it is possible to learn about these women’s lives at CC, specifically their relationship to the college, the campus, and the people who inhabited it.