When then-Denver City Council President Elbra Wedgeworth decided to campaign to bring the Democratic National Convention to Denver in 2008, she had no idea that convention would nominate the first African American candidate for president. And then, not only did she manage to win the DNC for Denver — on the hundredth anniversary of the last time the convention had been in the city — but she got to see Barack Obama walk across the stage at Mile High, in the heart of the city where she’d been born and raised…
Denver Hosted 2008 Democratic National Convention That Nominated Obama
