A slave born in North Carolina in 1837, Alex Bankhead came West with other slaves of the Bankhead family, who lived in Salt Lake City and Wellsville, Utah. Alex Bankhead was later sold to A.O. Smoot of Provo, Utah. He is seen here tying broom corn in the William Jex broom factory of Spanish Fork, Utah.
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Photo by George Edward Anderson, from the collection of the Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved. The Utah's African-American Voices archival photo gallery is an online adaption of the Utah Humanities Council's "Blacks in Utah History" project, created by Gary B. Peterson.