Seth Mallios is a professor of anthropology at SDSU and author of a book about Nathan Harrison, San Diego's first Black homesteader. He will present a talk on 'Historical Racism in San Diego County” at the Fallbrook Library on Nov. 14
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. makes a final visit to San Diego in 1964 that Seth Mallios finds particularly fascinating in his work as an archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian. King arrives at Lindbergh Field with plans to speak at San Diego State to speak against a ballot proposition that would overturn the Fair Housing Act, and King himself is being protested against and labeled a communist. He responds by saying it’s time for folks to pick a side.
The Utt family would later claim, in the 1950s, that they were the ones that brought Harrison west. In fact, the initial platform that Utt ran on for election was that he was so “old-time San Diego” that his family owned Nathan Harrison. When you look at Utt’s record, it was so creepy. In the ‘60s, he was making national headlines declaring that there were a bunch of “barefoot Africans” training in Georgia who were going to take over the U.S.
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