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Show “We need affirmative action. . . . Everyone talks about how important diversity is, but there’s very little diversity in Weber County.” ~ James H. Gillespie, former president of the Ogden branch of the NAACP Photos by JOHANNA WORKMAN/Standard-Examiner FEATURED VOICES: Jim Gillespie, shown in his home in Washington Terrace, is among local ee residents featured in “Utah's African-American Voices,” a KUED documentary airing Monday. Betty Moore relaxes in her Sunset home. Ogden branch, poses inher office. Moore, of Sunset, is one of several Utah residents who agreedto share their stories and insights in the KUED Channel 7 documentary, “Utah’s African-American black community. Moore, along with James H. Gillespie and Betty Sawyer, the former and current presidents of the Ogden National Association for the Ad-. Voices.” vancement of Colored People, respective sie ~_ Betty Sawyer, president of the NAACP TV series shows portrai ts of Utah African-Americans \ [|PBS documentary features several local residents’ insichts 9 INSIDE: Series studies how history of slavery shapes attitudes today/3E By NANCY VAN VALKENBURG Saeco : no: Betty Stewart Moore remembers the first time she realized she was different from the other children. student in the third grade in Ogden. Her classmates paired off to learn a dance, but no little boy would hold hands with Moore. “T remember walking home, wondering why they didn?t want to touch me to dance,” Moore recalls. “And I remember turning my harids over, looking at them a The hourlong program will air at 7:30 p.m. Dee - Abita ee cn project, “Africans In America.” The four-epi- and realiaia my skin was prose andmy __‘ $ode miniseries traces the history of slavfriends’ was pink. I guess those little boys _ ery and its aftermath. must have therBht the brown would rub The local documentary aims to educate It was the late 1920s and Moore wasa_ __ off on themy (? by sharing the stories of leaders in Utah’s ly, were among those interviewed from the Top of Utah. d ad Abe | chopGk TH: They agreed to shale thet stoves ii more depth with the Standard-Examuner. » See PORTRAITS/@A& |
