Deaths
Marie Greenwood
DENVER (AP) — Marie Greenwood, a pioneering Denver teacher who devoted decades to fighting segregation in city institutions, has died. She was 106.
Greenwood died Friday at her Denver residence.
Greenwood was one of the first black teachers to be hired by Denver Public Schools, which would later name an elementary school after her.
In the 1940s, Greenwood was a member of an interracial group that used lawsuits and other means to force restaurants and shops to serve blacks. In the 1960s, she served on a Denver Public Schools committee that studied racial inequalities in school funding and staffing in the district.