From the Buffalo Soldiers to Arizona Basketball's Fred Snowden, museum founders say it's a place young people will learn about history and themselves.
TUCSON, Ariz. — KGUN 9's Giving Project campaign is starting the new year off with our January recipient, a new museum that's long overdue here in Tucson.
Beverely and Bob Elliott's grandson, Jody, was researching African American heroes for a first grade assignment when he asked them: "When coach Snowden recruited me here, his pitch was let's go out west and make history," said Bob."He was the first black coach in Division I, major school, major conference. He knew the microscope would be on us."
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