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Show RACIAL BARRIER PROTEST FILED Segregation Petitioners Meet Opposition Segregation because of racial or cultural differences between Salt Lake citizens was condemned Tuesday Tues-day before city commissioners as that body considered a petition purportedly signed by 100 citizens in the area bounded by Fifth South, Ninth South, Main and Fifth East streets. The petition asked abatement of a club at Seventh South and Second East streets and official steps to halt a reported Influx of negroes within the described area. j "Although unscheduled as a public pub-lic hearing, approximately 75 negroes appeared to ask formally that the "invasion" petition be dismissed dis-missed and expunged from records of the city. After hearing briefly from both sides, commissioners referred the matter to the legal department for study. Sheldon R. Brewster, 849 Sfcond East street led a small group of men and women In support of the petition. Miss Helen L. Dennis, chairman of the executive committee. Utah Conference for Human Relations, filed a formal resolution adopted by that body. She was accompanied by Hector H. Lee of the University of Utah department of English and E. R. Smith of the university anthropology an-thropology and sociology department depart-ment The resolution "condemned the principle of segregation of any portion por-tion of our population because of racial or cultural prejudices because: be-cause: It would violate democratic rights of citizens living under, a democratic government, sociological sociologi-cal and anthropological finding? do not uphold segregation and such segregation is unethical and unscientific." |