A senior city planner told ColetteBordelon that prominent civil rights trial lawyer Irving P. Andrews' home, located in the City Park West neighborhood, tells the entire story of Denver.
DENVER — Near the intersection of 23rd Ave. and York is a home full of history that likely will receive a landmark designation.
“It was an area where Black families couldn't live, where they were restricted from living," Dierschow said. “In the 1950s and 60s, Black professionals started moving both into the City Park West neighborhood and into the Skyline neighborhood. And they called this area Struggle Hill, because they were reflecting that it was a struggle to be able to even live in these neighborhoods.”
His daughter said her father did not speak much about what life was like in Denver before she was born. “It's a very powerful symbol, I think, for our family and hopefully, for the general public," Andrews said. “Sometimes, we can think of history as full of these single, charismatic leaders. When in actuality, the civil rights movement, for instance, was a movement because of people who were lawyers, people who were pastors, people who went to church, just regular people.
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