The Last State to Honor MLK: Utah and the Quest for Racial Justice
MATTHEW L. HARRIS is Professor of History at Colorado State University-Pueblo, where he teaches and writes on religion and politics, American religious history, and civil rights. He received a BA and an MA from Brigham Young University and an MPhil and PhD from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of numerous works, including The Mormon Church and Blacks (2015), Thunder from the Right (2019), and “Watchman on the Tower” (2020). He is currently working on a book-length manuscript entitled “The Long-Awaited Day: Blacks, Mormons, and the Lifting of the Priesthood and Temple Ban, 1907–2019.”
MADISON S. HARRIS is a Kane Scholar and member of the Chancellor’s Leadership Class at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, where she double majors in history and biology. Her paper “A Cloud of Controversy: George Washington and Smallpox Inoculation during the American Revolution” won the best paper award at the annual Phi Alpha Theta Conference in Colorado and was subsequently published in a peer-reviewed journal. She has presented her research at the John Whitmer Historical Association Conference, as well as local and regional conferences. She plans to attend medical school in 2021.
Matthew L. Harris, Madison S. Harris; The Last State to Honor MLK: Utah and the Quest for Racial Justice. Utah Historical Quarterly 1 January 2020; 88 (1): 5–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/utahhistquar.88.1.0005
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