George Washington Carver High's legacy: Inside Arizona's first school built for students of color

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PHOENIX — We're taking you inside The Carver Museum, which was once George Washington Carver High School."Every room down here had a story to tell."

Skimming through her 1944 yearbook is like flipping through the pages of history - Black history and Arizona history. "When I would get on that Sun Valley bus after I ran that two miles, the ladies on board would take a breath and they would say, 'Oh! She made it!'"Franklin says the expectations were very high at Carver - math classes, science labs, even speech and debate classes - the administration aimed to make Carver a top-tier learning institution."If you hit the wrong key, she'd tap you on the head," Franklin explains of her teacher as she giggles, reflecting on the memory.

 

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