Sugar hill Neighborhood

Sugar Hill emerged as one of Tucson’s historic Black neighborhoods despite the segregationist redlining policies embedded in the 1946 covenants, conditions, and restrictions of the El Cortez Heights subdivision. After a Black family moved in, white flight rapidly transformed the area into a thriving center of Black culture in Tucson. In recent decades, student housing developments and socio-economic shifts have displaced many historic Black families the community remains deeply connected.