Robert A. Rees: 'Latter-day Saints especially should be working to end racism, as our scriptures state clearly that 'all are alike unto God ... black and white.''
By Robert A. Rees | Special to The TribuneUntil March of this year, there was no federal law against lynching in the United States. That law, the, was signed into law by President Biden an astonishing 100 years after the first attempt to pass such a law!
While the vast majority of lynchings took place in the South, some took place in other states, including in Utah where in 1925 Robert Marshall, a Black coal miner from Arkansas living in Carbon County, falsely accused of murder, was hanged by an angry mob that included an estimated 1,000 spectators. None of the 11 citizens accused of Marshall’s murder was ever brought to trial.
Fresh off a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I joined the Army and was sent to Ft. Gordon to train as a military policeman. I was shocked the first time I saw segregated public transportation, drinking fountains and swimming pools and was especially unnerved to pass through what was known as a “Sundown Town” - a sign outside of Georgia town that read, “Black Man, don’t let the sun set on your head in this town.
While the hanging of Robert Marshall in Utah in 1925 is called “the last lynching in the West,” it was not by any means the last violent racial act nor the last symbolic lynching. We know from recent events in the state that racism is very much alive here. In fact, there are almost weekly reminders of how far we have yet to go to root out anti-Black prejudice.
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