Utah Historical Quarterly
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CURRENT ISSUE: Volume 76, Number 2 (Spring 2008 Issue)
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ARTICLES
The Prohibition of Interracial Marriage in Utah,
1888-1963
By Patrick Q. Mason
Lucien Nunn, Provo Entrepreneur, and His
Hydropower Realm in Utah and Idaho
By Hugh T. Lovin
A History of Memory Grove
By William G. Love
“La Voz de los Otros”: An Overview of the Life and
Career of Eliud “Pete” Suazo, Utah’s First Hispanic
State Senator, 1951-2001
By Jorge Iber
IN THIS ISSUE
If there is one constant in history, it is change. But change is not necessarily
always universal or consistent. Some beliefs and activities
for
human beings of the twenty-first century have changed little or not at
all from those of our ancestors throughout past ages. It is a paradox of
history that human experience changes and yet it does not. The articles in
this issue for Spring 2008 deal with important changes in the attitudes,
experiences, and sacred places of twentieth-century Utahns.
Our first article examines the prohibition of interracial marriage in Utah
from the passage of legislation in 1888 banning miscegenation until its
repeal by the Utah State Legislature seventy-five years later in 1963. While
the anti-miscegenation law was on the books, African Americans and Asians
were forbidden to marry whites. However, unlike other states, the Utah law said nothing about marriages between whites and Native Americans.
Society has come to accept the inevitability and legality of interracial
marriages. However, as the prohibition of interracial marriages has become
history a new debate has arisen as to what relationships between individuals,
in the eyes of the law, constitute marriage
and family.
Lucien L. Nunn brought great change to Utah and its neighbors—
Colorado and Idaho. Nunn was a pioneer in the last decade of the
nineteenth century and first decades of the twentieth century in the development
of methods for generating electricity and distributing it to urban
and rural residents, businesses, and enterprises. It is hard to imagine a world without electricity.
It is also difficult to grasp the impact that electricity has
had on nearly every facet of our modern life. The production, distribution,
and use of electricity have carried us out of the dark ages and expanded
human activity in ways that our forefathers would have found simply miraculous.
Nunn’s story, recounted in our second article, illustrates the challenges
that he faced in providing cheap and dependable electricity throughout the
Intermountain West.
One of the constants in the human experience is remembering and
honoring the sacrifices and accomplishments of others.
Salt Lake City’s
Memory Grove established in 1924 in City Creek Canyon just east of the
Utah State Capitol is a place for remembering and honoring. The 665 Utah
servicemen who lost their lives in World War I and the 3,660 who died
during World War II are remembered, as are those heroes of subsequent
conflicts, in this sacred place where the steep slopes of the canyon seem to
offer peace, serenity, and security. The text and illustrations for our third
article show that change also affects a sacred place established as “a lasting
memorial to the hero dead of Utah.”
Eliud “Pete” Suazo was a man who both demonstrated change and sought
change. As Utah’s first Hispanic state senator, he represented a significant
though politically marginalized portion of the state’s population. Tragically,
his life ended at the age of fifty while he was serving in the Utah state
senate at a time when his long-time efforts to secure passage of hate-crime
legislation offered the hope of success. Our final article recounts his youth
growing up on Salt Lake City’s Westside, his emergence as a political leader,
and his efforts in behalf of the state’s poor, youth, disadvantaged, and
minorities.
BOOK REVIEWS
France A. Davis and Nyra Atiya. France Davis: An American Story
Reviewed by Wilfred D. Samuels
Jeffrey O. Durrant. Struggle Over Utah’s San Rafael Swell: Wilderness, National Conservation Areas, and National Monuments
Reviewed by Edward A. Geary
Louisa Wade Wetherill, compiled by Harvey Leake.Wolfkiller: Wisdom from a Nineteenth-Century Shepherd
Reviewed by Robert S. McPherson
Virginia McConnell Simmons. Drifting West: The Calamities of James White and Charles Baker
Reviewed by James M. Aton
Jennifer Eastman Attebery. Up in the Rocky Mountains: Writing the Swedish Immigrant Experience
Reviewed by Rachel Gianni Abbott
Gary Topping, ed. If I Get Out Alive: World War II Letters &
Diaries of William H. McDougall, Jr.
Reviewed by James T. Connelly
Diane E. Boyer and Robert H.Webb. Damming Grand Canyon: The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition
Reviewed by Roy Webb
Frederick H. Swanson. Dave Rust: A Life in the Canyons
Reviewed by Gary Topping