Escape is Resistance
In or around the 1st of November 1898, two Papago boys escaped from the Teller Institute (Indian Boarding School) here in Grand Junction.…
Category: Racist and Reactionaries
Vigilantes Shut Down Anti-War Socialist Paper
In the years leading up to the first world war, the only vocal local anti-war voices were the voices of the Socialists. The…
GJ Police Killings: The First 100 years
Grand Junction was just a couple years old when, in 1883, Town Marshal Tim Crowley shot and killed George Lewis, an African-American who…
Marijuana and the Grand Valley
Tomorrow residents of Grand Junction have a chance of reversing over a century of wrong-headed and racist marijuana laws, locally. It was 10…
Early Chinese Laundries, Target for Racist for Decades
May 31st 1885, John C. Montgomery carried out a census of the residents of the small dusty town of Grand Junction. Of the…