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*Brooks, Juanita. ''History of the Jews in Utah and Idaho''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Western Epics, 1973. (Family History Library {{FHL|257104|title-id|disp=book 979 F2b}}.) This is an indexed book on the history of the Jewish communities in Utah. It covers 1849-1961 and includes a list of the deaths in the various congregations from 1922 to about 1954. | *Brooks, Juanita. ''History of the Jews in Utah and Idaho''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Western Epics, 1973. (Family History Library {{FHL|257104|title-id|disp=book 979 F2b}}.) This is an indexed book on the history of the Jewish communities in Utah. It covers 1849-1961 and includes a list of the deaths in the various congregations from 1922 to about 1954. | ||
*Coleman, Ronald Gerald. ''A History of Blacks in Utah, 1825–1910''. 1980. Reprint, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms International, 1990. (Family History Library {{FHL|979.2 F2c|disp=book 979.2 F2c}}.) This addresses differing occupations, from trappers to African-American soldiers. In the appendix, a census summary is found and a study on occupations. | *Coleman, Ronald Gerald. ''A History of Blacks in Utah, 1825–1910''. 1980. Reprint, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms International, 1990. (Family History Library {{FHL|979.2 F2c|disp=book 979.2 F2c}}.) This addresses differing occupations, from trappers to African-American soldiers. In the appendix, a census summary is found and a study on occupations. | ||
=== African Americans === | |||
Time line of African Americans in Utah | |||
1847: Green Flake, Oscar Crosby and Hark Lay are part of the 1847 Pioneer Companies | |||
1850: Census reports 50 African Americans and 24 listed as free 26 listed slaves. | |||
1852: Utah Territorial legislature passes a law recognizing legality of owning slaves | |||
1862: Congress passes legislation abolishing slavery in the territories. | |||
1865: 13th Amendment | |||
1869: Two Black militry units the 9th Cavalry and the 24th infantry patrol in Utah | |||
1890-1940 The railroads are the largest employer of blaks in Utah. | |||
----: First Black church in Utah | |||
1890's: Black newspapers published in Utah: ''The Domocratic Headlight, Tri-City Oraacle, Broad Ax and ''''Utah Plain Dealer.''1898: anit-miscegenation law; prohibit issuance of marriage license to mixed-race couples. | |||
1899: the 24th infantry stationed at Fort Douglas | |||
1902: Harlem Renaissance writher Wallace thurman is born in Salt Lake City and lives in Utah until age 20. his novels: ''The Blacker the Berry, Infants in the Spring, ''and ''The Interne. '' | |||
''1921: Mignon Richmond is 1st black to graduate from college in Utah.'' | |||
''1925: D. H. Oliver becomes Utah's first black attorney.'' | |||
''1945: World War II brings many blacks to Hill Air Force Base in Ogden (Weber county) and Dougway Proving Ground in Tooele County'' | |||
''1950: Ruby Price becomes the first black schoolteacher in Utah- at the Intermountain Indian School, Brigham City. Ruby was named Mother of the Year in 1877.'' | |||
''1863: The Legislature rescinds anti-miscegernation law of 1898'' | |||
1964: President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimiation in voting, education, employment and public facilities. | |||
1967: Charles James Nabors becoms the first black faculty member at the University of Utah | |||
1868 Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is killed in Memphis, Tennessee | |||
1876 Rev. Robert Harris is elected Utah's first black state legi | |||
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