Paul Stewart (historian)

He served in the United States Navy upon graduating high school, and later settled in Evanston, Illinois, with his brother.

He dropped out to help his brother with tuition, and subsequently earned a license from Moler Barber College.

The museum bought and moved into its permanent home, the Justina Ford residence on California Street and 30th Avenue, in 1988.

[4] The museum, billed as "the only Western-black-history museum in the world,"[2] highlights the history of African Americans' movement west and includes artifacts and pictorial histories of cowboys, farmers, ranchers, miners, Buffalo Soldiers, Tuskegee Airmen and the residents of the Five Points area.

[5] Stewart was of African American and Cherokee descent, and a cousin of Earl Mann,[2] who served in the Colorado House of Representatives.