Tolleson is a city of approximately 6500 people located 10 miles west of Phoenix. Tolleson's Integration Mural symbolizes a judge's ordering of the end to the segregation of Mexican-American students in the town of Tolleson. According to researcher Ruben Flores:
“The mural depicts the history of white American immigration to Arizona on the right, the history of Mexican American immigration to Arizona on the left, with the meeting of school children from each of the two cultures depicted in the center of the mural. In the background of the center portion is a public school set in rays of the sun. This is the community’s way of celebrating the mixing of cultures that occurred as a result of the federal Gonzalez v. Sheely desegregation case argued in Arizona in 1951. ”
Artist? Location 9354 West Van Buren, Tolleson
Tolleson Fire Fighter's Mural 93rd Avenue and Van Buren, Tolleson
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