Voices: African Americans helped build Utah. But our fight for freedom, equality and economic empowerment is far from over.
The labor of African Americans is intricate to the very fabric of America’s history — starting from the first arrival of enslaved Africans, through the Civil War and into the stories of Black farmers and business owners in Utah.
(Utah State Historical Society) Amanda Leggroan Chambers and her husband, Samuel D. Chambers, came to Utah in 1870.
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