Beverely Elliott is the Executive Director of the African American Museum of Southern Arizona, the only museum of its kind in the state. In this episode she gives us a tour of the young museum’s exhibitions, tracing Black history in the Sonoran Desert.
Hosted, produced and edited by Patricia Schwartz; post-production by Carlos Quintero.
Notes and Resources
• Resources and extended information:
∗ Dec 7, 2023, Tucson Sentinel: Half-century-old TUSD school segregation case returns to 9th Circuit. The 1974 TUSD segregation case was brought back on appeal to the 9th Circuit Court in 2023, with former students contending that TUSD has still not complied with desegregation order, citing differences in achievement and discipline for Black and Mexican-American students, as well as issues with minority faculty retention and transparency.
∗ Aug 4, 2015, Tucson.com: Notable Tucsonan: Ulysses Kay
∗ Curated list of resources on Black History in the Southwest, University of Arizona
• Other links of interest:
∗ African American Museum of Southern Arizona
∗ Dunbar Pavilion
∗ JSW Radio Episode on Mapping Racist Covenants
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