Civil Rights in Utah
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CIVIL RIGHTS IN UTAH
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CIVIL RIGHTS SUMMARY
• http://www.history.com/videos/civil-rights-act-of-1964#civil-rights-act-of-1964
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Rosa Parks and Bus Rides
• Sit Ins
• King’s March on Washington
• Integration
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
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THE DARK SIDE – EARLY 1900’S
• Housing Segregation (simulate Realtor)
• No formal segregation laws in UT
• BUT informal practices kept Blacks and Whites separate
• Realtors only show certain houses
• Blacks could only get certain jobs => less pay => poorer neighborhood
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Chicago
• White = Caucasian
• Blue = African
• Orange = Hispanic
• Green = Asian
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THE MAJORITY OF UTAH'S AFRICAN AMERICAN PEOPLE LIVED IN CENTRAL SALT LAKE CITY WEST OF SECOND WEST,
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AND IN OGDEN WEST OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD AND SOUTH OF TWENTY-FIFTH STREET
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THE DARK SIDE -1939
• Sheldon Brewster (realtor and Democratic speaker of the UT House of Representatives)
• Tried to section off part of the city as an African American ghetto.
• City commission refused
• He tried to convince Blacks to voluntarily agree move into his ghetto
• Civil Rights Activists marched on the state capitol in protest
• Many real estate companies still tried to insert "whites only" rules in contracts
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THE DARK SIDE 1900-1940’S
• African American entertainers and celebrities couldn’t stay in hotels• Singer Lillian Yavanti
• Metropolitan Opera contralto Marian Anderson
• Singer and Actor Harry Belafonte
• Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton
• Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald
• African Americans in audience had to sit in balcony.
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THE DARK SIDE – 1900’S - 1945• Off Limits to African Americans - Public and private swimming
pools, including Ogden's Lorin Farr Park and Farmington's Lagoon until 1945
• Native Americans couldn’t vote until (UT was last state!) 1956
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THE LIGHT SIDE – 1896 – 1970’S
• Women in UT could vote!
• But job discrimination existed in UT (women paid less, etc)
• 1970’s saw women activists rally for a change
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THE LIGHT SIDE – LATE 1940’S
• Businessmen Robert E. Freed opened Lagoon's swimming pool and ballroom to African Americans
• Integrated Salt Lake City's Rainbow Rendezvous ballroom.
• Following Freed's lead, most businesses dropped their discriminatory practices and cities integrated their municipal swimming pools
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THE LIGHT SIDE – EARLY 1950’S
• The mostly white students at Ogden High elected African Americans Shirley and Carl Kinsey to student-body offices
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THE LIGHT SIDE – 1960’S
• Utah legislators passed laws prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations, and employment
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THE LIGHT SIDE – JAN 1961
• Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at University of Utah
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• http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/utah_today/thecivilrightsmovementinutah.html