In January 1961, a large crane hoisted the 15-foot tall, 40-foot long jet onto an 11-foot pillar at A.J. Chandler Park in downtown, according to an article published in The Arizona Republic.

Emma Arbuckle, a central figure in Chandler's black community for decades, wasn't Coy Payne's mother, but she acted like his mother. Payne, the city's first black mayor, recalls how "Miss ...