Crossley intended the 20-acre tract, which at the time was outside city limits, to be a place where black families who worked in Palm Springs but were barred from living there could live.

Palm Springs will remove a row of tamarisk trees blocking a historically African American neighborhood from the city-owned Tahquitz Creek Golf Course. At an informal meeting with neighborhood ...

Palm Springs officials have decided to remove a row of controversial tamarisk trees which sit between a historically black neighborhood and a city owned golf course. The City Council voted ...