Barbara Lewis is a Tucson Dunbar School alumni and she has a goal to preserve the history in the buildings and educate the community.
TUCSON, Ariz. — In 1909, Arizona Mandated all school children to be segregated by race for the first 8 years of school.
Through a time of segregation and racial inequality, 85-year-old Barbara Lewis stood side by side with her classmates.She attended the school from 1942 to 1950.The school was built in a predominately Black neighborhood adding a second building in the ‘40s. She remembers being in the school’s choir and performing at different places in Tucson, places the students weren’t always treated fairly.
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