Episode 716 | Web Extra African-American History in NM

Host Gene Grant continues his conversation with Rita Powdrell and Brenda Dabney, co-creators of “New Mexico’s African-American Legacy: Visible, Vital, and Valuable,” and George Geder, president and historian for the NAACP’s Santa Fe branch. They talk about at athletes (including former football players at New Mexico Highlands who protested the lack of African-American professors and history courses), the impact of the railroads, school segregation in New Mexico, as well as the history of a subdivision built by African-Americans in Albuquerque.