"For a long time, the spaces where Mesa’s orange pickers and other migrant workers first settled before the Second World War were not much coveted. Just as Black people were segregated in a neighborhood to the north of downtown, immigrants from Mexico and later other parts of Latin America were relegated to unmaintained dwellings to the south."

>For much of the 20th century, minorities were barred from buying property in most parts of Mesa

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