Box 2
Container
Contains 14 Results:
Rev. Ira Martin, 1973
File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Reverend Martin was born in Mississippi in 1914. He attended school up through the tenth grade. His father was a deacon of the church and owned a farm. He moved to Utah in September of 1944, worked at a Navy supply depot packing supplies, and eventually moved up to oversee some kind of packaging. However, he had a work accident and had to be put on medical disability. He recounts that it was difficult to find a job due to discrimination against African Americans. Reverend Martin...
Dates:
1973
Carl Mason, 1971
File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Mason works with academic departments, the Dean of the Students’ Office, and students to help the University of Utah better meet the needs of African American students. He works primarily as a counselor and adviser to African American students. He was born in Lexington Kentucky, lived in Grand Rapids Michigan, and attended Grand Rapids Junior College and Augustana College in Illinois. He obtained two Masters Degrees, one from the University of Michigan and one from Western Michigan...
Dates:
1971
Marie Myers, 1971
File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Mrs. Myers was born in Salt Lake City on August 14, 1928. She attended Jordan and Roosevelt Junior High and graduated from West High in 1945. Her great grandparents came to Utah with Brigham Young as enslaved persons and members of the LDS church. She didn’t run into many problems with housing or job discrimination, which she attributes to her LDS faith. She seems to have great regard for the Church and the extent to which it helps its members. Mrs. Myers does not remember any...
Dates:
1971
Charles Nabors, 1971
File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Nabors begins his interview by saying that teachers need to be reoriented in terms of minority students, especially those who have graduated from BYU. He discusses the difference between the institutionalized racism here and the bigoted racism in the South, citing an instance that occurred at West High School. He is reluctant to discuss his troubles with housing because he is a middle-class professor, but he does mention the substandard housing for African Americans in Central City. He notes...
Dates:
1971
Ruby Nathanial, 1973
File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Mrs. Nathanial was born January 17th, 1907 and attended Edison Elementary School, West Jr. High, and West High School. She was very shy in junior high and had few friends. She worked mostly as a maid for private families, beginning when she was thirteen years old. She didn’t have trouble getting jobs and says her employers were nice people. During the Great Depression, both she and her husband experienced wage cuts but were ultimately okay. The first time Mrs. Nathanial ever saw another...
Dates:
1973
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...
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...
Dates:
1973
Polly James, 1973
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Polly James was born August 3, 1919 just north of Texarkana, Texas. She had two brothers, six sisters, and attended Burns High School. In the fall of 1937 she attended Prairie View St. College for one semester before dropping out to get married. Her husband went away to join the army for two years and eight months. They moved to Salt Lake City in the October of 1946. At the time, her husband was employed at ANSR, and they had five children: two boys and three girls. When they moved to Salt...
Dates:
1973