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Local African-American activist David Combs talks about his reaction when Barack Obama was elected president of the United States in 2008 and 2012. He remembers feeling the audience’s excitement during Obama’s campaign speeches at Cross Orchards and Grand Junction High School. He speaks about Obama’s role in leading the nation’s discussion on race through incidents such as the death of Trayvon Martin. He discusses discrimination towards Obama...
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Colorado Governor Edwin “Big Ed” Carl Johnson campaigns with Colorado Democratic Senate Candidate John Albert Carroll and Wyoming Senator Joseph Christopher O’ Mahoney. This recording is provided by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries, the Museums of Western Colorado and the Mesa County Historical Society.
*This recording was made on an audio cassette tape on November 19, 1980 and taken from a 16...