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Mrs. Mattson discusses life in Ogden in the 1940s and 1950s, Hill Air Force Base, the Porters and Waiters Club, LaVogue Club, entertainers at the Terrace Room and the Old Mill, Anna Bell's Restaurant, and alcoholism.

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. McQueen talks about growing up in Dallas and Oklahoma, segregation in Utah, and jazz.

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Mrs. Nabors discusses segregation in Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Alabama, Ohio, Illinois, and Utah; the NAACP; Urban League; and Tuskegee.

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Mr. Nixon discusses growing up in Arkansas, the Ku Klux Klan, segregation, the army, Hill Air Force Base, the Rio Grande Railroad, Latter Day Saints, Ogden, the NAACP, and civil rights.

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Mr. Perkins, who came to Salt Lake City from Memphis, discusses his experiences with the L.D.S. church.

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Mr. Price discusses boxing, and in particular, Paul Perkins. He discusses living in Utah communities among the Latter Day Saints

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Mr. and Mrs. Sexton discuss the NAACP, the Progressive Party, the American Legion, picketing theatres and bowling alleys, and raising their foster children.

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...

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. Singleton discusses his move from South Carolina to Utah and life as a Pullman Porter.