NAACP in Colorado Springs

Seeking racial justice and equality, local Blacks founded the Colorado Springs branch of the NAACP at Payne Chapel in August 1918. Reverend A. Wayman Ward, pastor of the church became the first president. Throughout the 1930s, NAACP members Kimbal Stroud Goffman and Charles Banks were two of the most outspoken local activists working to eliminate segregation practiced by local businesses, and discriminatory housing practices. The pair worked to organize Blacks and Hispanics into a coordinated political unit, to better combat discrimination and injustice.
– From the CSPM Curator of History