Miriam B. Murphy History Blazer, November 1995 The 20th century produced dramatic changes and opportunities for women. The events leading up to statehood brought to an official end at least the practice of polygamy, and the state constitution restored women’s right to vote and guaranteed other equal rights. Laws passed in 1911 and 1913 set maximum hours and minimum wages …
ZCMI
Martha Sonntag Bradley Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution, known as ZCMI, the “People’s Store,” is what one historian called America’s First Department Store, and was founded in March 1868. By that date the Latter-day Saints had lived in the Great Basin for little more than two decades but had already foreseen a new threat to their peace …
The United Order Movement
Dean L. May Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 The United Order Movement was a program of economic and moral reform begun in 1874 under Brigham Young. It drew upon earlier efforts of the Latter-day Saints to organize cooperatives in Ohio and Missouri and though of little discernible impact in the 1870s, provided the ideological underpinnings for subsequent church poor relief, especially …