Richmond Park

This park honors a woman who was first through a door long closed. Mignon Barker Richmond became, in 1921, the first Black person to earn a college degree in Utah, graduating from the school that is now Utah State University. She spent her long life — she was born in 1897 and died in 1984 — as an educator, a civic leader, and a tireless worker for her community in Salt Lake City, opening ways for others in a state where Black residents were few and often unwelcome. The park keeps her name, and her example.

What the plaque says

Dedicated to Mignon Backer Richmond April 1, 1897 March 11, 1984 Educator-Civic Leader Humanitarian Utah's First Black College Graduate Utah State University June 1921

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Liberty Park — 0.8 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
• Gilgal Sculpture Garden — 1.0 mi
  A surreal and eccentric sculpture garden hidden in a residential neighborhood
• Salt Lake City — 1.2 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
• Temple Square — 1.2 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City

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