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Their old neighborhood is now part of Denver’s Auraria Campus. They want a greater say in its future.

Leaders of campus’s 3 higher education institutions vow to work with displaced Aurarians

The Ninth Historic Park on the Auraria Campus in Denver on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. The Ninth Street Historic District, a block on the Auraria Campus featuring some of the neighborhood’s original homes, is all that remains of the working class, Latino neighborhood whose residents were displaced in the 1970s. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
The Ninth Historic Park on the Auraria Campus in Denver on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. The Ninth Street Historic District, a block on the Auraria Campus featuring some of the neighborhood’s original homes, is all that remains of the working class, Latino neighborhood whose residents were displaced in the 1970s. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
Elizabeth Hernandez in Denver on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
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As they have for decades, the displaced Aurarians — as they’re known — and their descendants gathered in a public meeting to ask for a say in what happens to the Ninth Street Historic District, the strip of about a dozen old homes on the college campus preserved through years of grassroots organizing.
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