A former slave was lynched on Utah’s Capitol Hill. State leaders resisted a memorial, so Salt Lake City acted.

31 August 2026, 1:05 am

Historians’ best guess for the location where children found the lynched body of Thomas Coleman, a formerly enslaved Black man who trekked with his owners to Utah, is on a shaded stretch of manicured ...... Read More »

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