Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project
Biography
The Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project was established in the mid-1980s in the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences at Brigham Young University. It was later transferred to the Marriott School of Management, where it remained until the project was completed in 2007.
The project worked to collect oral histories and other documentation about Latter-day Saints that migrated out of Utah and took up leadership roles in business and communities elsewhere in the United States. The project was administered by G. Wesley and Marian Ashby Johnson.
Citation:
Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project records, circa 1985-2007Brigham Young University, L. Tom Perry Special Collections worksheet, Jan. 22, 2010 (Mormon Outmigration Leadership Project; oral history, research project at Brigham Young University)
BYU Studies, 2007:vol. 1, p. 41 (Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project) p. 48-49 (founded in mid-1980s)
Marriott School of Management Web site, Jan. 22, 2010 (LDS Out-Migration Project; Out-migration Leadership Project)
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Center for Family & Community History project records, 1866-1989, bulk: 1960-1989
Contains project records from the Center for Family & Community History and its predecessor, the Department of Family and Local History Studies. Includes materials on conducting oral histories, project records on various religions found in the Provo and Orem areas of Utah, and Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project records. Materials dated 1866 to 1989 (bulk of materials created between 1960 and 1989).
Center for Family & Community History records
Department of Family and Local History Studies records
Contains oral histories on audiocassette related to the migration from members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as records on the operations of the Department of Family and Local History Studies. Materials date from between 1982 and 1988.
Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project discussion with Richard L. Bushman, approximately 1985
Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project discussion on audiocassette with Richard L. Bushman. Dated approximately 1985.
Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project records, 1973-1989, bulk: 1984-1989
Contains oral histories on audiocassette related to the outward migration of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Utah. Also contains one folder of records related to the the project. Materials date from 1973 to 1989, with the bulk recorded between 1984 and 1989.
Outmigration Leadership History Project records
Contains the records, case files, transcripts, photographs, newspaper clippings and oral history interviews collected by the Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project between the mid-1980s and 2007.
Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project records on Atlanta, Georgia, 1988 January-March
Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project interviews on audiocassette, conducted in Atlanta, Georgia. Dated January to March 1988.
Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project records on Chicago, Illinois, 1985-1986
Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project interviews on audiocassette, conducted in Chicago, Illinois. Dated 1985 to 1986.
Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project records on Dallas, Texas, 1988 June-August
Arranged alphabetically by last name of interviewee.
Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project records on Denver, Colorado, 1987-1988
Mormon Outmigration Leadership History Project interviews on audiocassette, conducted in Denver, Colorado. Dated February to March 1988.