Sanctuary: Who Belongs Here? The Search for Homeland on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1848-Today
A Note on Language
We were intentional about the use of the term Black rather than African American. The use of the term Black is, in this current moment, more inclusive to all African, African diasporic and mixed race communities located in the Border
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UA Archival Collections
Ada Peirce McCormick Papers (MS237)
Ada Peirce McCormick was born in Bangor, Maine, on March 28, 1888, and relocated to Tucson with her husband in 1931. In 1942, she lobbied to create a recreational facility in Tucson for Black soldiers, an effort that met with heated opposition from many Tucsonans. Her passion for social justice and human rights prompted her to found Letter, a national quarterly devoted to promoting dialogue on national and international problems.
Books, Theses, Dissertations and Articles
The Colored Cadet at West Point by Call Number: U410.P1 F6 1998 Special CollectionsISBN: 9780803268906Publication Date: 1998- Flipper's dismissal: the ruin of Lt. Henry O. Flipper, U.S.A. first coloured graduate of West Point byCall Number: UB856.F6 J6 1980Publication Date: 1980
- Henry Ossian Flipper: the first Negro graduate of West Point byCall Number: B9791 Special CollectionsPublication Date: 1971
- The History of African Americans in Tucson byCall Number: F819.T99 N45 1996ISBN: 0961166827Publication Date: 1997
- Negro frontiersman: the Western memoirs of Henry O. Flipper, first Negro graduate of West Point. byCall Number: B9791 F626n Special CollectionsPublication Date: 1963
- An officer and a gentleman: the military career of Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper byCall Number: U53.F55 B53 1985Publication Date: 1985
- Tucson's forgotten generation : biographical memoirs of the Dunbar neighborhood in the 40's and 50's byCall Number: F819.T9 E45 2014ISBN: 9780615940311Publication Date: 2014
