Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Jones (1884–1989) was the first black woman to graduate from the University of Colorado Boulder.

However, they did not move to Barnum until between 1886 and 1888 because of a lack of water, roads, transportation, postal service, churches, physicians, and shops.

[8] Although the classrooms at the University were integrated,[5] school officials apparently did not want her to walk on stage to receive her diploma at the graduation ceremony in June 1918.

A woman was sent to her while she was sitting and waiting for her name to be called and told her “I’ll be your partner, Lucy”, then handed Buchanan Jones her diploma and disappeared.

[9][8] McLean, an associate professor of media studies at the university, wrote a book about Buchanan titled Remembering Lucile: A Virginia Family's Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High, published in May 2018.

[10][5] In 1919 Buchanan Jones took a position teaching English at the all-black Lincoln High School in Kansas City.

A student of hers who worked on the paper, Lucile Bluford, became one of the most highly recognized and respected journalists in Missouri as well as a leading voice in the civil rights movement.

[5] Buchanan Jones returned to Chicago in 1925 and obtained a teaching position at the Stephen A. Douglas School.

Buchanan Jones filed for a divorce which was granted in April 1940 on the grounds of adultery, extreme and repeated cruelty, willful desertion, and habitual drunkenness.

[5] The shoes that she wore for her wedding, made by the Louvre Boot Company in Kansas City, Missouri, are at the Museum of Boulder.

[6][11] With deep Baptist roots, Buchanan Jones became the first recording secretary of the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses.

In 1986 she was placed under the jurisdiction of the Colorado Department of Human Services, and on March 3 of that year, was physically restrained, removed from her home and taken to the Stovall Care Center.

Fred Walsen, a history buff, read about Buchanan Jones's burial in the Rocky Mountain News and arranged to have her name added to her tombstone in 1998.