“It’s not just the museum I’ve always wanted. It’s the museum the community needed,' said Beverely Elliott, who co-founded the African American Museum of Southern Arizona with husband and former UA basketball star Bob Elliott.
Justin Spears When the African American Museum of Southern Arizona opened its doors — or “cut the ribbon” — on Jan. 14 in the University of Arizona Student Union, co-founders Bob and Beverely Elliott hoped that 70 people would show up.“One guy even said, ‘This is like being at the post office around Christmas time; just take a number and wait,’” said Bob Ellliott, a former star basketball player at the UA.
“He asked me about where there’s an African-American museum in Tucson or Arizona, and I had to think about it and realized I had not been to one,” Beverely Elliott said. “I had to tell Jody, ‘There’s not a museum in Arizona.’ Imagine hearing that at 7 years old. He was like, ‘Wait, what do you mean? Were there no Black people around or we didn’t do anything?’”It wasn’t just Jody.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Arizona hiring Snowden — and McKale Center opening to the public. Snowden, who went 167-108 in 10 seasons and led the Wildcats to the 1976 Elite Eight, is the first Black head coach at a major university. Snowden’s daughter, Stacey Snowden, was a panelist for a recent fireside chat at The Loft Cinema to talk about her father's legacy.
“She was a 6-year-old from New Orleans. She said when she saw the crowd and people throwing things, she thought, ‘Oh, this must be another Mardi Gras.’ Then she realized they were throwing rotten tomatoes and eggs,” Elliott said. “The story was so moving. … Originally, our tagline for the museum was that we wanted people to leave and say, ‘I didn’t know that.’
In the limited time Graham is able to meet with his running backs in February, he preaches “constant education and being lifelong learners.”
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