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Mrs. Henry recalls her childhood in Louisiana and Kansas, her move to Salt Lake City in 1949, the NAACP, the Utah and Idaho Baptist Association, and Model Cities.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Utah Endowment for the Humanities funded the Oral History Institute of Salt Lake City to conduct interviews with members of different ethnic minorities and racial groups. The people chosen to be interviewed were from Utah's African Americans, Greek, Jewish, Japanese, Mexican, Hispanic, Chinese, Ute, and Italian communities; and were in most cases fifty—five years of age or older. The goal of the project was to try to determine if, how, or to what extent each minority culture had been...

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Mr. Horton recalls his childhood in Alabama, his move to Hill Air Force Base in 1943, discrimination in Utah, and segregation in the workplace.

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Mr. Jones recalls working on the railroad from Texas to Oklahoma, discrimination, and life in Ogden.

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Mrs. Kelly discusses education in Salt Lake City, Washington, and San Francisco, looking for work, being a nurse's aid at Holy Cross and St. Mark's Hospitals, her marriages, the NAACP, Blacks Unlimited, the Black Panthers, Masons, Elks, and life on 25th Street in Ogden.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Utah Endowment for the Humanities funded the Oral History Institute of Salt Lake City to conduct interviews with members of different ethnic minorities and racial groups. The people chosen to be interviewed were from Utah's African Americans, Greek, Jewish, Japanese, Mexican, Hispanic, Chinese, Ute, and Italian communities; and were in most cases fifty—five years of age or older. The goal of the project was to try to determine if, how, or to what extent each minority culture had been...

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Mrs. Lawrence recalls living in Murray, Utah, activities at Liberty Park, the W.P.A., dating, slavery songs of her ancestors, segregation on Navy bases in California and Utah, and religion.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Utah Endowment for the Humanities funded the Oral History Institute of Salt Lake City to conduct interviews with members of different ethnic minorities and racial groups. The people chosen to be interviewed were from Utah's African Americans, Greek, Jewish, Japanese, Mexican, Hispanic, Chinese, Ute, and Italian communities; and were in most cases fifty—five years of age or older. The goal of the project was to try to determine if, how, or to what extent each minority culture had been...

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Mr. Lee discusses discrimination in the Ogden schools, riots in Los Angeles, prison life, the Army, and the Rastafarian religion.