Stone monuments were unveiled Friday at This Is the Place Heritage Park celebrating the significant contributions of Black pioneers, some of them slaves.
Monuments of Black pioneers are unveiled at This Is the Place Heritage Park on Friday, July 22, 2022.This Is the Place Heritage Park, honoring the arrival 175 years ago of Mormon pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley, now tells a more complete story of their epic journey.Friday at the state park in the eastern foothills celebrating the significant contributions of Black pioneers, some of them slaves.
For instance, Green Flake, Hark Wales and Oscar Smith — all three enslaved — entered the valley July 22, 1847, two days before Brigham Young, leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, reportedly declared, “This is the right place.” Hundreds gave a standing ovation as Flake’s descendants pulled the sheet off the statues, located on a plaza behind the towering memorial with Young perched on top. Descendants of Green Flake, an enslaved pioneer who entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, are interviewed after the unveiling of monuments of Flake and other Black pioneers at This Is the Place Heritage Park on Friday, July 22, 2022.
On their historic arrival, Flake, Wales and Smith scouted the area, tilled the ground, planted crops and
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