Box 2
Container
Contains 14 Results:
Catherine O’Neal, 1972
File — Box: 2, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
O’Neal was born May 31, 1916 in Salt Lake City County Hospital. She attended Jackson and West High School. She noted that there were about a dozen other African American students at West High School at the time she was there. She mentions a bit about her family history, including that her family was from Topeka, Kansas and that her mother had Cherokee ancestry. She grew up with seven siblings. Her family mostly worked in janitorial work. She remembers that the Great Depression was difficult,...
Dates:
1972
Reverend and Mrs. Halsie Owens, 1973
File — Box: 2, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
Rev. Owens was born on May 4th, 1907, in Oklahoma. He went to school through the ninth grade and came to Utah in October of 1945. Mrs. Owens was born in Crescent, Oklahoma January 6th, 1909. Mrs. Owens attended school through ninth grade as well and came to Utah in 1953. The couple experienced a lot of problems with racism related to housing. When Rev. Owens first came to Utah, he struggled to find housing that wasn’t near the railroad tracks. When the couple moved, neighbors signed a petition...
Dates:
1973
Mrs. Minion Baker Richmond, 1972
File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
Mrs. Richmond was born in 1897 in the northern part of Salt Lake City near the capitol building. Her brother died at three or four years old. She grew up on 500 West between 100 and 200 South She did not know any other African American families near her, and as a result often played with White children who lived on the street. Her father was born enslaved and her mother was White and from London. Her father died in the 1920s, her mother in the 1930s. She had two brothers who died at birth,...
Dates:
1972
Ruth Ross, 1973
File — Box: 2, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Mrs. Ross was born in Salisbury, North Carolina. She attended high school there and then came to Utah in 1954. She made this decision because the climate in North Carolina was not conducive to her health and she felt Utah’s weather would be better for her. Additionally, she had a brother living in Utah at the time. Mrs. Ross said that she wanted to work as a waitress or a cook, but that those jobs were not available to her. At the time, the only work available to African American women was maid...
Dates:
1973