"The world owes you nothing but an opportunity" was a favorite saying of Geneva Epps Mosley, her daughter Evelyn Plantillas said.

Plastered on a middle school building, the name “Geneva Epps Mosley” was sprawled across, she saw her mother’s legacy being remembered in the community. “Every time I see it, it's ...

She was eventually transferred to the middle school that decades later was renamed in her honor, working there full time for 18 years. After retiring, Mosley worked as a substitute teacher until ...

the first Black teacher in the Tempe Elementary School District, passed away in December at the age of 95. Mosley, who taught for three decades in the district, had a Tempe middle school named in ...