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One of Calvin C. Goode s sons, Vernon Zina Goode, poses with members of his family at the open casket viewing of former Phoenix Vice Mayor and city councilman Calvin C. Goode on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021, in Phoenix, Ariz. (AP Photo/Cheyanne Mumphrey)
PHOENIX Phoenix city officials, residents and prominent members of the Black community will honor late civil rights icon, city leader and longtime Arizona resident Calvin Coolidge Goode in the coming weeks.
Goode died on Dec. 23 from an illness not related to COVID-19. He was 93.
A virtual memorial service is scheduled for Tuesday. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, it will be livestreamed online by the Historic Tanner Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Facebook.
Former Phoenix Councilman Calvin C. Goode speaking on a city show in 2013.
As Phoenix’s second African American councilmember, Calvin C. Goode was elected 11 consecutive times. He served a record 22 years before retiring. Goode died Wednesday at the age of 93. Through a city spokesperson, the Goode family said Calvin C. Goode passed at 3:25 p.m. on Dec. 23, 2020, at Banner University Medical Center from a non-COVID related illness. Memorial services are pending. The family requests privacy during this time.
Early Years In Arizona
When Calvin C. Goode arrived in Arizona he couldn’t have known he would make Phoenix history. After all, he was just 10 months old when his family left Oklahoma to work the cotton fields near Gila Bend. At that time, African Americans could only attend school through the eighth grade there. So Goode moved to Prescott for high school and finished his last year in Phoenix at a segregated school. Originally called Phoenix Union Colored High School, it
Calvin C. Goode, longtime former Phoenix City Councilmember, has passed away
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PHOENIX - FOX 10 has learned that former Phoenix City Councilmember Calvin C. Goode has passed away.
FOX 10 profiled Goode in a news report in 2017 about George Washington Carver High School, which was located just south of Downtown Phoenix. Goode graduated from that school.
According to the website of the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center, the school was built specifically for African Americans, due to local sentiment which urged racial separation among high school students, even though Arizona did not mandate high school segregation at the time.