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A 1967 Daily Utah Chronicle interview with several African Americans in northern Utah provided insight into African-American views of racism and Utah's integration of civil rights policies. The interview reveals the African Americans, particularly youth, felt continued discouragement of interracial marriage, even after legalization, was wrong ...
Although new African American newspapers continued to be established in Utah through at least the 1990s, many of the state's historical African American newspapers date to a period of journalistic ferment between 1890 and 1910. [1] During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the state's African American population grew, reaching 1,144 in ...
From 1787 to 1868, enslaved African Americans were counted in the U.S. census under the Three-fifths Compromise.The compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention over the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population.
The era of the civil rights movement in 1950 brought change to Utah and the African Americans living there. Many African Americans faced discrimination as they came to Utah, however as public attractions such as Lagoon Amusement Park started to appear segregation began to disappear. [19] In Utah today, most of the African American population ...
African-American people in Utah politics (1 C, 2 P) Anti-black racism in Utah (1 C, 5 P) S. History of slavery in Utah (9 P) Pages in category "African-American ...
In 1847, the Mormon pioneers arrived with African slaves, which was the first time African slavery was in the area. [2] Three blacks who arrived in Utah with Brigham Young's party were slaves. [14] Mormons arrived in the middle of the Mexican–American War and ignored the Mexican ban on slavery.
Robert Archuleta: [18] First Latino American male to graduate from the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law (1974) [Salt Lake County, Utah] Keith N. Hamilton: [35] First African American male to graduate from the J. Reuben Clark Law School of Brigham Young University [Utah County, Utah]
Hark Lay Wales arrived in Utah on July 22, 1847. This historic event marked them as the first African-Americans to arrive in Utah. Shortly after arriving Hark Lay Wales and others settled in a small African-American community near Salt Lake City called Cottonwood, which would later be named Holladay. [3]