Hart filed a protest with the SL City Council on Apin which he stated the SLC Police deliberately stalled any investigation and allowed the Soldiers to escape in their anonymity. This incident outraged the Black Community of SLC, especially the membership of the Cavalry Baptist Church and a meeting was held on April 15 1918.Īs a result of that meeting Pastor George W. Wallace reported that the Soldiers appeared to be drunk. The Soldiers also beat Thelma, then seized her and drove off with her in their automobile letting her out a short time later. Then Soldiers knocked Wallace down several times and badly beat him.
The two groups physically bumped into each other on Main Street and name calling started. Both teenagers were members of the Calvary Baptist Church, at the time located at 679 E 300 South (and now located at 1090 S State). Wallace went on to be a part of the Harlem Renaissance. Thelma was the daughter of Samuel Steward- the longtime caretaker of one of SLC’s underground Comfort Stations (previous posts). The two teenagers were Thelma Steward, age 19, and Wallace Thurman, age 15. This incident and the lack of any accountability helped spur the creation of the Salt Lake Branch of the NAACP. On April 9 1918, 2 Black teenagers were assaulted by about 6 White Soldiers from Ft Douglas at the intersection of 200 South and Main St SLC. Louis Community Service Award.Calvary Baptist Church Aug 1910, 679 E 300 South, He and his wife, Thelma, have received the Jane and Whitney Harris St. He was recognized as the 2012 Black Engineer of the Year (BEYA) and the 2015 St. In addition to his business success, Steward has won several awards. He has two children and two grandchildren. The entrepreneur has been married for over 44 years. What is more, the billionaire is also the author of two books - Doing Business by The Good Book, published in 2004, and Leadership by the Good Book, published in 2020. Steward is also the founder of Kingdom Capital, a values-driven private investment firm with a focus on early-stage companies with technology-based health and medical solutions. The WWT specializes in cloud capabilities, data center, and virtualization, security, mobility, and networking technologies along with voice, video, and collaboration solutions. On its website, WWT notes that it has more than 7,000 employees and generates more than $13 billion in annual revenue. The company provides services for both the American government and private organizations. with more than 20 locations across the world.
Today, the firm is one of the largest Black-owned IT providers in the U.S. He founded IT provider World Wide Technology (WWT) with a shoestring budget, and with seven employees. The entrepreneur left FedEx in 1984 and launched an IT firm in 1990. I asked myself, Is this what I want out of life?.” The award, he said in an interview “was a defining moment. Steward was so diligent and hardworking, earning him the best salesman at Federal Express. He subsequently moved to Federal Express where he worked for five years. While with the company, he worked as a sales representative. He then moved to Missouri Pacific Railroad Company in 1975 and exited the firm in 1979. Between 19, he worked as a production manager at Wagner Electric. Growing up, Steward sometimes went without a paycheck, according to a report by Forbes, adding that he “once watched his car get repossessed from the office parking lot.” Today he is the majority owner of an almost $12 billion (sales) company, with customers that include Citi, Verizon and the federal government.īefore 1990 where he established his own firm, Steward worked for a number of companies including Wagner Electric, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, and Federal Express.
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