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Show The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Sunday, December27, 1998 Liaorth) EeeTie | | | 1824-26 — Black mountain man JamesP. Beckwourthtravels through Utah. 1847 — Green Flakedrives Brigham Young's wagonintothe Salt Lake Valley, Twootherblack pioneers, Oscar Crosby and HarkLay,arepart of theinitial Mormon migration 1850 — Census reports 50 blacksin Utah — 24 free, 26 slaves. 1852 Utah’s territorial legislature passes law recognizing legality of owningslaves. 1869 — Twoblack milita the 9th Cavalryandthe 24th In patrol in Utah. Americ ‘an Methodist Episcopal Church opensinSalt Lake City. It is the first black church in Utah. 1890s — Several black newspapers are launchedin Utah 1919 — The National Association for the Advancement ofColored People opensa Salt Lake City branch. 1921 — MignonRichmondis the first black to graduatefromcollege in Utah 1925 — Moblynchesblack prisoner Robert Marshall inPrice. D.H. Oliver passes the bar examand becomesUtah’sfirst black attorney. 1939 — Apetitioncirculatescalling ie | i | | | 1765 — Spanish explorer Don Juan for restricting blacksto onesection of Salt Lake City. Opponents rally at the Capitol. The petition eventuallyis declared unconstitutional 1943 — Ogden NAACP founded 1945 — WorldWarII brings many blacksto Hill Air Force Basein Ogden aeUueway Proving Groundin Tooele Co ane saxophonist Joe McQueen arrives in Ogdenfor two-week gigat allblack nightclub. He makes Utahhis home. LATE 1940s — Ella Fitzge ‘ald is refused by whites-onlyhotel in Salt LakeCity. 1886 — The Mexican American War ; selling California, New Mexico, Nevada,parts of Colorado, Arizona and Utahto the United States for $15 million. 1900 — Oneofthefirst homesteaders near Monticello, Ramon jonzalez, settles near Indian Creek. Catholic Churchrecords show the first baptism of child with a Spanish surname, Guadalupe Chavez. 1910 — Thefirst large wave of Mexican immigrants comesto Utah, escaping the Mexican Revolution and eeking jobsin Utah mines,railroads and farms 1912 — The first Mexican consul for Utah, Jose Lozano,is appointed in Salt LakeCity. 19 ‘ama Mexicana, the first Spanish-speaking branchof the LDS Church in Utah,is founded. U.S. censusreports 2,300 first- and second-generation Mexicansin Utah. constitute 5 percentofthe population 1927 — Padre Perfecto Arellano, a Mexicanpriest, comesto Utahto ee the mission serving Salt Lake City’s MexicanCatholics. Nuns ofthe Orderof Perpetual Adoration arrive from Mexico 1930s — The Depressionforceshalf Utah’s Mexican immigrant population to return to Mexico — either voluntarily or through deportation. moc4 — Latinos fromArizona, roxas. New Mexico andColorado start coming to work at Utah's military installations, mines and railroads. Ee ee ro orn pects vine in Uta Setc an Gl orum; panish-speaking veterans organizationthat evolves into a Pca, cue Hu eroupsis founded in Ogden. A growing numberofCentral and South Americans come to Utah. Congress passes the Bilingual Education Act, which provides the first federal funding for bilingual education. 1973 Formation ofthe Governor's Office of HispanicAffair: 1975 Centro dela Familia, the 6 — A poll sent to 107 reveals that 51 refuse to anti-miscegenation law of 1898, which prohibits mixed-race marriage 1964 Calling for fair housi and equal access to publie facilities, NAACPdemonstrates in front of LDS Church office buildingin Salt LakeCity, 1965 Nettie Gregory Community 1966 Governor's Center opens inSalt L: Committeeon Civil Rights finds restrictive real-estate covenants whileillegal still are used 1969 Fourteenblack University of Wyoming football players boycott a game against BrighamYoung University to protest LDS Churchpolicies pro hibiting blacks fromholding the priesthood Grover Thompson is elected student body president at theU., the first black to holdthat office. black judge, is appointedto 3rd Circuit Jeanetta Williams appointed | to the national board of the NAACP. | 1884 — George Segal, a Japanese cookand waiter, is lynched 1901 Yasujiroa Kasuga movesto Utah and —becomes renowned openedto white homesteader ? President’Theodore Roosevelt withdraws 1.1 millionacres fromthe Utes tocreatethe Lakedirectorylists 15 Chinese citizens. 1905 Uinta National ROTHERcetverie aie ncaa TOGO acres to Navajoreservationnear Aneth farmer. 1909 Strawberry Valley Reclamation Project in Wasateh County takes 56,000 acres fromtheUtes by “right of eminent domain.” 1912 — The Goshutereservation in Skull Valley is established 1929 Congressestablishes Kanosh Indian Reservationin ‘ 1941 Navajo Ma “code-talkers” confound soldiers by using their language a military code during World War I 1943 Utes win $32 million Intermountain Buddhist whichprohibits Japanese and their American born children from buying oe It is repealed in 1947. 948 — Utahn Mike Masaokalobbies| in W hington for compensating incarcerated Japanese. The Evacuation Indemnity Claims Act passes two years later, awarding$38 million nationwide. 1960 Utahcivil-rights activist Henry Kasai is namedpresident of the Salt Lake City Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League. ASalt Laki Thomas andJessy Jenks attheir homeon the Ute Reservation near anese Duchesne. neighborhood is destroyed to make room fortheSalt Palace. The Buddhist and Japan hur hes in the area are the only remnant: 1969 speech celebrating judgment for land repayment 950 IntermountainIntertribal Schoolopens SE in BrighamCity raee es in Utah, leads “termination” movement During the Golden Spikecentennial, the Council LeeMartinezis appointed administrativevice president for the | National Council on Hispanic/Latino Affairs. Ss of Transportation doesn’t mention Chineselaborers. 1972 Ghybeeee te heen un ceeareureote Narendra erat RA GN abolish tribal governments and end Yukus Inouye becomes a Utah County commissioner, Utah's first federal treaty obligations. 76 — The Korean American Association of Utahis founded. aymond Uno is namedtotheSalt LakeCity Court bench, thefirst minority judge in thecity’s history 1977 — Asian Association of Utah,a_| PlacementProgram, which boards American Indianstudents in Mormon foster homes . i 1975 GeorgeP. Leeis thefirst American Indiangen’ authority in the LDS Church. The Navajo is electedofficial of Japanesedescent. LDS Chureh inaugurates Indian social-services agency for immigrants | excommunicated for apostasy in 1989. The Goshute tribe wins a $7.1 andrefugees,opens inSalt LakeCity Vietnamese cometo Utahin large numbers million settlement fromthe federal governmentina land dispute. 1980 — Moon Ji, a Korean, is named state refugee coordinator. 1985 986 Betty North opens the New Salt Lake County Commission. Horiuchi 1997 — LeeMartinez appointed to the pat LakeCity Council 98 — Latino communityrises sentmnt proposal to give Salt LekeCity 1991 Buddhist Temple, financed by Cambodian andLaotian communities, opens in West Valley City | Iwasaki is named a 1 3rd District judge Vietnamese Catholics in Salt Lake City securetheir own church. 1998 Bill LannLee, the first Chinese-AmericanU.S. deputy attorney general for civil rights. visits Topaz rules AmericanIndians may usesweat lodges 994 — U.S. SupremeCourt upholds reducethe sizeof the Uintah-Ouray reservation by 2.9 million acres. 1995 — Tribal leaders from the Congress’ turn-of-the-century intent to wins. apanese-AmericanGlenn K A federal judge at the Utah State Prison and Republican M. TomShimizu, run for Senate. West Valley City 1989 politicians, Democrat Randy Horiuchi Pete Suazo elected to the Utah Judge William A. Thorne, a Pomo Indian, is appointedto 3rd Circuit Court, HopeRefugee Friendship Center. 1990 Two Japanese-American 1994 — Darline Robles appointed as Salt Lake School District'sfirst | Latina superintendent. police authority to enforce some federal immigration laws. Salt Lake City Council defeats the measure Latinos and other ethnic minority communities persuade statelegislators tokill an English-as-official-language bill 1984 Intermountain Intertribal | School closes. 1983 — Governor Scott Matheson establishes the Governor's Asian. American Advisory Council Vanessa Gomez,left, Vanessa Gamez and Nathalia Gomez, at Hispanic Fiesta Days. to the South Pacific to ali loosens its migration laws and LDS converts start moving to Utah. 1889 cific Islanders number in Utah, most of them Hawaiian Rac prejudice, language barriers andcultural differences make it difficult for Polynesians to assimilate in Utah. The LDS Church buys a 1.920 acre ranch in Skull Valley. Tooele County, and establishes a Polynesian colony called losepa 1890-1916 The losepa Polynesians build a thriving community in the desert. including a one-room schoolhouse. church uded sidewalks, shadetrees, postoffic long-distance phone lines. Des outbreaks of influenza, diphtheria and seve cases of leprosy at losepa immigration continues from I Tahiti, Samoa and N population peaksat 2 The first LDS missionaries arrive in Tonga 1893 First LDS branch is established in PagoF Before the turnof the century 11 branches ar 1915 ~The LD announces it will bu Hawaii, thefirst out continental United States 1917 Almost all residents of losepa returnto the islands and the Amelia and Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu with their exhibit at Salt Lake Art Center. colony becomes a ghost tov wn. 197 An LDS temple is dedicated in Hawaii 1955 The Church College Hawaii, now known as Brigham Young University, Hawaii, opens 1971 Thelosepa cemetery in Tooele County is added to the Nationa! Register ofHistoric Pla 1976 The Tongan Rugby Union i established in Salt LakeCity. There now areeight teams one made up of Samoans that compete during the summer at Jordan River State Park 19 Asian Association of | social-services agency for immigrar is established 1978 The TonganUnited Methodist Churchopens in the former race Methodist building in Salt Lake City entrepreneur commissioner of 3rdCireuit Court 191 Utah Coalition of La Raza. an umbrella groupfor Latino political and social organizations,is formed — RubenOrtega becomes LakeCity policechief 1993 — AlianzaLatina, an umbrella organization for Latin Americans, is formed. Andrew Valdez becomesthe first Latino statejudge JesseGarciais electedto Ogden City punci 1875 Uintah-Ouray reserva 1942 By President Roosevelt's executive order, the Central Utah War Hillerest ¥ Tigh S ‘hool FrancesPalaciosis appointed as Utes laundries and manyother Chinese businesses. 1879 — High unemploymentcauses national anti-immigration andracist sentimentsacross the nation andin Utah, 1882 —Pre: sure from laborunions leads tofederal Chinese ExclusionAct, which prohibits Chinese fromentering the country. Chinese cannot becomeU'S. Salt LDS missionaries travel for proselytize among Hawaiians. Samoans aside the UintaBasinforIndianus 186: 2 — Uniontroopsestablish Fort Douglas near Salt Lake City and launch ‘inst Utes, Shoshones and Inthe BearRiver campaign, Union troops kill 368 Indians and capture 160 womenandchildre 1864 U.S. Army commissionsKit Carsonto round up Navajos 1865 UteChief Black Hawk leads warriors against Mormoncolonists 1884 U.S. President Chester Arthurextendsthe Navajo reservation northinto Utah U.S. government decid build Fort Duchesneto “discipline and control” 1887 Indians. — The Uintah-Ouray Indian yot®®70, 7h ona northeastora Utah Kin Seng Ng worksat a Chinese restaurant in Salt Lake City. 1844 thefirst time and other Polynesians. 7 — party ofwhite settlers is red at Mountain Meadows by reaches 2, 110 1926 Thedeath of Ding Ling Ho makesthe front page in Park City. The miner became a reales 1990 TedLavatois named “Utah Principal ofthe Year” for his work at TheRey. Robert Harris, a Court by Gov, Scott Matheson. He is namedto3rd District Court in1 Joyce Gray becomesthefirst black school principal, chosen todirect Arcadia Elementary School in Salt Lake County 86 — Legislation passed declaring the third Monday of January as Martin Luther King Jr. holida: 1993 — 600Southin Salt LakeCity is renamed Martin Luther KingJr. Boulevard g Christ opens inSalt LakeCity Japanesepopulationin Utah Pardons. Rampton 1976 Raraes, Ww 01 Relocation Center or Topaz opens in Millard County. Oneof 10 Japanese concentration camps, Topaz houses 8,255 people. 1943 Utah passes Alien Land I 1972 Creationof Black Advisory Council by executiveorder of Gov, Cal Democrat from Ogden, is elected Utah's first black statelegislator. 1978 — LDS President Spencer W Kimball has a revelationthat blacks can hold priesthoodinthe church 1984 — Tyrone Medley, Utah’s first Ute, Shoshone, Mormon. and Paiutes 1861 — President Lincolnsets Chureh is built in Salt LakeCity a awa family launches Latino general authority of the LDS Church. | . 1984 Bobbie Florezis thefirst Latina elected to Utah House of Representatives. 1986 Victoria Palaciosis the first Latinato serve onthestate Board of islanders cultures disappearfromthe Southwest Paiute, Goshute and bandsofhunters and gatherers. F and Novae guide Spanish explorers Escalante and Dominguez throughparts of Utah 1847 — Brigham Young leads Mormons intotheSalt LakeValley, encroaching onIndian territories 1852 — UtahTe legalizes indentured servitudeof “Indianprisoners, children or women. 3 — Uteleader Waka nearly 100 warriors against Mormon colonists near Payson Elder County. pacific Anasazi and Fremont publication of the Utah Nippo newspaper. 1918 TheJapanese Church of Utah, is founded 1976 — John Ulibarri, a Democrat from Roy, becomes thefirst Latino elected to the House. 980s \ waveof Salvadorans, Guatemalans and Nicaraguans comes to Utah seeking political asylum. 1981 Angel Abrea becomes first 1994 party Chinese worker AhSing is lynched in Corinne, Box 1912 largest Latino social-services agencyin restaurants 1874 strawberry in Salt LakeCity. Within five years, membership grows from500 to 27,000. serveblacks 1963 TheLegislature rescinds eeeee a 1300s — Later tribes 1903 First majorwave of Japanesear in Utahto work the sugar-beetfields near Garland, Box ElderCounty 1907 Gentlemen’s Agreement between Japanandthe UnitedStates curtails Japanese immigrationandis intendedto stopdiscriminationagainst Japanesein thestates Shiro (ida beginspublishing The Rocky MountainTimes,a Japanese newspaper. 1968 — SOCIO, the Spanish Speaking Organization for Community, Integrity, and Opportunity, is organized Bandleader Fletcher Henderson andbrother Horaceoperate oneof several popular jazz clubsin Salt Lake 1950 — Ruby Price becomesthe first black schoolteacher in Utah when hiredby the Intermountain Indian School, BrighamCity GoldenSpike ceremony. Noneofthe speeches mentiontheir contribution to building railroad "473 the ‘The frst Japanese —a in Utah. 1962 — The Guadalupe mission establishes asocial center called the adalupe Center. Roy Hawkins wasa waiterin Salt Lake City in the '40s. 1860s —First Chinese come to Utah to work onrailroad — morethan 12,000 work forCentral Pacific. 1869 — Chinese laborersattend the Maria Antonio de Rivera makes two expeditions through Colorado and Utah to find a way across the Colorado River. 1776 — Fathers Escalante and Dominguez explore uncharted regions : FTaat=ya (er- a) indians. | Northwest Bandof Shoshonededicate a state-funded burial repository for the remains of ancient Indians found on eau “#02 F The UteIndianTribe opens gas stationin a move to createjobs and 1998 a reservation grocery store, bank and economic opportunity for tribal members 1983 Bishop Patelisio Finau diocese of Tonga, visits Tongan Catholies at St. Patrick's Chureh in Salt Lake City. The bishop participatesin smony in Which guests shar¢ age made from hot pepper root fonga Nuku'alofa Temple opens 1983-86 Tongan running back Lakei Heimuli rushes for 2,710 ards and twiceis named to the All West« rn Athletic Conference teamduringhis football career at BYU. He is the Cougars’ all-time rushing leader 1985 The losepa Historical Association is established and procures 2 'acres abutting the cemetery for a park. Pour years later theassoc: iationerects a monument at the old cemete 90 Molonai tlola is the first roigan student-body president of the University of Utah Maia Vakapuna, a single mother from Samoa, becomes the first Polynesian female police officer in Utah whenshe joins the Salt Lake City Police Department 1990 Phil I. Uipi. born in Tonga becomes Utah's first Polynesian legislator he1990 census reports 3,904 Tongans in Utah. making it the second largest Tongan community in the UnitedState 1992 SamoanCricket League is formed. Some370 players compete in Samoa’s national sport duringthe summerin Kearns 1994 Fineasi M, Nau is the first directorof the state Office of Polynesian Affai 1996 King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV and Queen Halaevalu Mata‘aho of Tonga visit Salt Lake City, accompanied by the royal family 1998 delegation of Samoan parliamentary members visit Salt Lake City ona fact-finding mission SOURCES:UtahHistorical Society Utah Historical Quarterly: files from The Salt Lake Tribune; The Peoples of Utah, edited by HelenZ. Papanikolas the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Discrimination Against the Negro andInstitutional Efforts t Eliminate It. master's thesis by Margaret Judy Maag: Hecho En Utah edited by Utah Arts Council Folk Arts Staff: Contributions of Hispanics in America, edited by Rosina Griege The Navajo Nation, by Peter Iverson: A History of the Northern Ute People by Fred A. Conetah; and interviews |
