![]() Source: Oral History Interview with Clarence Beridon, interview 4-5, pages 11-13. She primarily worked for prominent SLC attorney Calvin A Behle (in addition to her NAACP volunteer work- see previous post). So instead of being able to learn typing and stenographer skills, Thelma was stuck doing domestic housework for others. They would have accepted her.” Clarence said in his oral history interview. Like if she had been white it would have been different, see. It just wasn’t developed like it should have been. The LDS Business College told Thelma that they would not accept her to the school because no one would hire her “because she was a colored woman,” as told by Clarence. At the time, the school guaranteed finding students’ jobs after they graduated. The College had a program where men and women could go to school to learn business skills and when they finished, they could pay back the cost of school. Thelma tried to enroll at LDS Business College, then located across from the SLC LDS Temple at 70 N Main St (where the current LDS Church Office Building is located). Shortly after Thelma died, her husband, Clarence Beridon, told an interesting story about Thelma during an oral history interview:Ĭlarence said that Thelma had a good head on her, she was very intelligent. Note only White people in the photograph. ![]() Typing class at LDS Business College ca 1905. ![]()
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