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Artists dealing with social and plenty social and political content. A lot of these artists throughout history have recognized the artforms ability to bring about social change. Later, we will make our way to the top of hayden butte and hear about the man credited 40 settlement, Charles Hayden. He was a Community Builder in a wider sense. Thinking about what could he do to help the Community Get bigger and that is in a lot of ways why his figure has become bigger historically. We begin the hour at the asu library, where we will looking at items from two long serving senators, Barry Goldwater and carl hayden. The arizona collection here at the asu library preserves accessible the papers of 14 members of congress from arizona. The goldwater papers and the hayden papers are the two largest archival collections that document the works of the arizona congressional delegation. Hayden is an interesting individual because his father was the first white settler of the city in about 1870. He bui