Every year, Utah celebrates Pioneer Day on July 24 in honor of the
Mormon pioneers who settled the Salt Lake Valley in the mid-1800s.
Above, people dressed as pioneers pose after participating in the annual
parade that makes its way through downtown Salt Lake City.
Michael Friberg
Tourists walk around the top of Emigration Canyon in Utah. Brigham
Young descended into the Salt Lake Valley through Emigration Canyon with
an advance party in 1846. As the leader of the LDS church at the time,
he declared that Utah would be the place they would settle. He was
followed by 70,000 other Mormon pioneers who walked on foot, pulling
hand carts, from the Midwest.
Michael Friberg
Catherine Spruill, an African-American Mormon, sits in front of her
ward in West Jordan, Utah. The LDS church has a complicated history with
African-Americans. Their doctrine did not allow black men to hold the
priesthood until 1978.
Michael Friberg
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