Intermountain Fair Housing Council

Intermountain Fair Housing Council

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The Fair Housing Act: It's Your Right Contact IFHC today if you feel you are a victim of housing discrimination. Learn More: https://linktr.ee/IFHCIdaho

If you, as an individual or family, are seeking housing, it is your right as a consumer to choose where you want to live, without the arbitrary limitations imposed by illegal housing discrimination. The Fair Housing Act protects individuals from discrimination based on: Race, Color, National Origin, Religion, S*x, Familial Status, and Disability.

06/20/2026

Tu apoyo puede proteger a quienes cosechan nuestros alimentos. Estamos recaudando fondos para el Fondo de Alivio por Calor y Humo JJ Saldaña 2026,
🔗 https://givebutter.com/2026hsf

Los trabajadores agrícolas de Idaho están enfrentando en este momento condiciones peligrosas debido al calor extremo y al humo de los incendios forestales. Las personas que cosechan nuestros alimentos trabajan largo días bajo condiciones extremas, y sin la protección adecuada, las enfermedades relacionadas con el calor pueden poner en riesgo sus vidas.

Ya hemos comenzado a distribuir nuestras bandanas personalizadas en los campos, pero hasta ahora solo hemos recaudado $337!

06/20/2026
06/20/2026

For : On June 19, 1865, two months after the Confederacy surrendered and more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Union troops finally arrived in Texas, the westernmost Confederate state, and spread the word there that freedom was the law of the land.

About 70 years later, workers from the Federal Writers' Project arm of the Works Progress Administration started traveling around the U.S. collecting the stories of elderly Americans who still had firsthand accounts of being enslaved. Many of the people who were interviewed were also photographed. The Library has preserved these stories and images.

This photo is of Betty Simmons, who said she was more than 100 years old when she was interviewed in 1937 in Beaumont, Texas. She said she was married during slave times, and widowed, but was very happy that freedom came when it did because her enslavers were preparing to put her 3-year-old child to work in the fields.

Explore the narratives: https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/?loclr=fbloc

Image: Betty Simmons, Age about 100. Taken between 1936 and 1938. WPA Slave Narrative Project: Container, A932, vol. 16, part 4. Federal Writer's Project, United States Work Projects Administration (USWPA). Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

An old African American woman in a button down dress stands in front of a chair with her hands clasped, looking at the camera. The chair is outside, positioned in front of a house. A younger woman stands on the porch behind her.

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