This event is to unveil the mural of four Black women who have contributed to the uplift, character, heritage, and culture of Salt Lake City and all of Utah.

featured image: Western Federation of Colored Women, Courtesy of University of Utah Marriott Library Special Collections

Commemoration of Black men lynched in Utah

To find out more about the Salt Lake County Community Remembrance Project and racial terror lynching go to our webpage: https://www.semahadithi.org/slccrp

Image courtesy EJI, The Legacy Museum

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The use of monuments as propaganda in rewriting the historical and political narrative. The creation of exclusive community narratives and expressing racial exclusion and oppression.

Image courtesy KSL NewRadio

“The Wisdom of Our Years”, produced by Phyllis Caruth and originally screened in 2008, is a documentary whose aim was to tell how far we’ve come as we strive to live the dream articulated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that all be judged “not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

The film presents the stories of women now passed whose career choices were once limited to domestic service, and men now passed who could aspire to no higher career path than where a train might take them. All are part of Utah’s unique and little-known Black American History.

“The Wisdom of Our Years”, produced by Phyllis Caruth and originally screened in 2008, is a documentary whose aim was to tell how far we’ve come as we strive to live the dream articulated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that all be judged “not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

The film presents the stories of women now passed whose career choices were once limited to domestic service, and men now passed who could aspire to no higher career path than where a train might take them. All are part of Utah’s unique and little-known Black American History.