Blacks in Utah photograph collection

Blacks in Utah photograph collection, 1850-1960

Overview of the Collection

Title: Blacks in Utah photograph collection
Dates: 1850-1960 (inclusive)
18501960
Quantity: 10 photographs
Collection Number: P0160
Summary: The Blacks in Utah photograph collection contains photographs of the first African Americans in Utah and of several generations of their descendents.
Repository: University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions: Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Languages: English

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This information on Blacks in Utah (1879-1980) was collected between 1965 and 1979 by Steven K. Madsen, whose study of early Black arrivals in Utah (after 1847) and the Black community of Union, Utah Territory, was prompted by an interest in history aroused by the U.S. Bicentennial celebrations of the mid-1970s. Photographs of the first Blacks in Utah and their descendants. Photographs No.4-6 represent seven generations of black. Green Flake, a member of the vanguard pioneer group and a photographs of black soldiers returning home from the Spanish American War are not included in this collection. Green Flake was a slave, friend, and driver for Brigham Young. Flake was later freed, settled in the community of Union, married, and raised a family. He is buried in the Union Fort Cemetery.

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Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Separated Materials

Audio-visual materials were transferred to the Interviews with Black Utahns audio-visual collection (A0079).

Manuscript materials were transferred to the Stephen K. Madsen collection on Blacks in Utah, (ACCN 0689).

Audio-visual materials were transferred to the interviews with Blacks in Utah, (MS 0453).

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description
Box	Folder
1	1	First African Americans in Utah Photograph number 1: Don Freeman Bankhead. The first free born black in Utah. Bankhead's middle name is significant because it illustrates his status as a free man. Photograph number 2: Lottie Campbell (sister of Sylvester Perkins and Mary Ann James). Photograph number 3: Mary Ann Perkins James, black pioneer (sister of Sylvester Perkins and wife of Sylvester James. Sylvester was a member of the Nauvoo Legion and the son of Jane Manning James.) Photograph number 4: Martha J. Perkins Howell (left-granddaughter of Green Flake); Lucinda Flake Stevens (center-mother Martha J. Perkins and Belle Oglesbe and daughter of Green Flake); Belle Oglesbe (right-granddaughter of Green Flake). Photograph number 5: Martha J. Perkins Howell; Mary Lucille Perkins Bankhead (Great granddaughter of Green Flake and member of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers); Ruth Jackson (great great grandaughter of Green Flake); Juanita Spillman (great great great granddaughter of Green Flake); (left to right) Photograph number 6: Jaunita Spillman with her daughter, Lonnie (great great great great granddaughter of Green Flake) Photograph number 7: William James (son of Mary Ann Perkins James, and Lottie Campbell. Husband of Martha Perkins Howell and father of Mary Lucille Perkins Bankhead.) (left to right) Photograph number 8: Congregation of Calvary Baptist Church Photograph number 9: Unidentified woman Photograph number 10: Church Dinner

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