Robert “Archie” Archuleta, “an icon of activism in Utah,” received the NAACP Salt Lake City branch‘s Albert Fritz Civil Rights Award during the organization’s 99th annual Life Membership & Freedom Fund Banquet on Friday.
The longtime civil rights leader and educator worked for the Salt Lake City mayor’s office and the capital’s school district.
(Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune) Nate Salazar, left, of Mayor Biskupski's office, speaks with retired educator, Latino activist, and civil rights advocate Robert "Archie" Archuleta prior to his being presented with the Albert Fritz Civil Rights Worker of the Year Award, by the Salt Lake branch of the NAACP, Friday, October 27, 2017.
Also speaking at Friday’s event was “Freedom Rider” Joan Trumpauer Mulholland. According the NAACP branch’s website, the 2015 National Civil Rights Museum’s Freedom Award-winner “is a Civil Rights Legend who participated in over 50 sit-ins and demonstrations by the time she was 23 years old. She was a Freedom Rider, a participant in the Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-in, and helped plan and organize the March on Washington.”