Laura Nobles Banks-Reed grew up in a segregated Tucson, then set out to change things in classrooms and the community at large.
Henry Brean Laura Nobles Banks-Reed helped change the face of education in Tucson, after growing up, attending school and teaching students in what was then a segregated city.
“So many of us learned so much from her,” said Doris Snowden, a board member with the Tucson chapter of the NAACP. Larry Starks is president of the Tucson Juneteenth Festival Committee, but in the early 1970s, he was a student at Cavett Elementary School. Her grandmother and a host of her aunts, uncles and cousins lived nearby along the same block of Anita Avenue and Contzen Avenue.
But that soon changed. Banks-Reed said it was her and her mother who convinced the head of the department to drop that Jim Crow-era rule once and for all. Banks-Reed also devoted her time to community activism, serving two terms as the president of the local YWCA and two terms as president of the local NAACP chapter. She was the first woman to hold that job, and she helped lead the civil rights organization in its fight to force Tucson restaurants to seat and serve Black customers.
She retired from Tucson’s largest school district in 1982, after serving as its first Black assistant superintendent.
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