Researchers map Tucson’s history of race-restricted neighborhoods


In 1939, prominent Tucson developer John Murphey received a fill-in-the-blank template from the Federal Housing Administration, outlining restrictions he should use to protect the value of what would become Broadway Village, the city’s first shopping center.One of the suggested covenants read: “No persons of any race other than the (blank) race shall occupy any building or any lot,” unless they are employed …

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