... was held by African- American citizens. By the beginning of the sixties Civil Right advocates began to picket in front of the Capitol Building in an effort to persuade the governing body to pass equal right acts. The Salt Lake chapter NAACP publicly demonstrated in boycotts against Woolworth establishments throughout Utah because of their anti-black rules. As the state of Utah ... such as Stanford University, the University of Washington, and San Jose State cut all extra circular activities with B.Y.U. "because of alleged racial discrimination by the Mormon Church"13. In1974 the NAACP f...

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