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Mrs. West discusses segregation in Utah and Hill Air Force Base in the 1940s and 1950s and the activities of the LaVogue club.

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Mr. Williams recalls activities with the Calvary Baptist Church, scouting, school, and Latter Day Saints. He also discusses the lynching of Emmett Till, civil rights, politics, and the Masons.

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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Senator Williams recalls being driven from his home in Burley, Idaho; moving to Salt Lake City where he got involved with scouting; the A.M.E. church; his involvement in politics; and his work on the bill to commemorate Martin Luther King Day.

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Mrs. Fleming recalls her husband, Monroe Hamilton Fleming, her life in Salt Lake City, her religious experiences as a Black woman in the LDS Church, experiences with persistant racism at school and church, her husband's conversion to the LDS Church, working at the Newhouse Hotel, courtship, and farming near Highland Drive.