Learn about 50 years of Hispanic and African-American community life in Mesa

Learn about 50 years of Hispanic and African-American community life in Mesa

When: 2 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 9, 2004

Where: Mesa Main Library, 64 E. 1st St., Saguaro Room

Who: Mesa residents and community supporters

Why: The presentation is the culmination of the Washington Park Oral History Project


The City of Mesa Library invites all residents to a presentation by

historian Christine Marin on 50 years of Hispanic and African-American

community life in Mesa.

Washington Park was the site of Verde Vista, Mitchell Addition, Tuskegee

Place and the Escobedo housing projects, the earliest and largest

African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods in Mesa.

The library’s Mesa Room-Local History Archives & Special Collections has

collected shared memories of the neighborhoods through oral history

interviews and photographs. The project will become part of the library’s

local history collection and will be used as the basis for a program

educating the general public on the historic contribution of this

community. The project was made possible by a grant from the Arizona

Humanities Council.

For more information, call (480) 644-3730.