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Civil Rights in Utah

Civil Rights in Utah. 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. The Dark Side – early 1900’s.

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Civil Rights in Utah

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  1. Civil Rights in Utah

  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Chicago White = Caucasian Blue = African Orange = Hispanic Green = Asian
  5. The majority of Utah's African American people lived in central Salt Lake City west of Second West,
  6. and in Ogden west of Washington Boulevard and South of Twenty-fifth Street
  7. 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
  8. 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 VibraharpistLionel Hampton Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald African Americans in audience had to sit in balcony.
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. The Light side – early 1950’s The mostly white students at Ogden High elected African Americans Shirley and Carl Kinsey to student-body offices
  13. The Light side – 1960’s Utah legislators passed laws prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations, and employment
  14. The Light side – Jan 1961 Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at University of Utah
  15. http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/utah_today/thecivilrightsmovementinutah.html http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/utah_today/thecivilrightsmovementinutah.html
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