You mean like MLK being killed there? I get that Blacks have been there longer than out in lily white Utah, but that history is spotted at best. This article from the LA Times sums it up.
“Memphis is still poor and people are still fighting for a livable wage,” he said as throngs of families, pastors, activists and union workers lined up outside the museum. “We still have so much to do.”
Five decades after King launched his Poor People’s Campaign and came to Memphis to support striking sanitation workers, this majority-black Southern city is the most impoverished metropolitan area in the nation, with nearly 20% of residents living below the poverty line.
Blacks in the city of Memphis suffer disproportionately, with a median household income of about $31,000 — barely more than half that of whites, according to census data. More than 52% of the city’s black children live in poverty."
SLC may not have the history of Memphis, but that could be spun as a good thing too. We need more ambassadors like DM to tell the tale about how great Utah is.