Rice-Eccles Stadium, Rice Stadium, Ute Stadium. Although the name has changed, the University of Utah football team has played their home games at the same address since 1927. But oh how it has changed.
Brown escalated the debate over slavery to the point that it sparked the Civil War via his raid on Harpers Ferry on October 16, 1859. Brownâs contemporaries and historians have been debating his motivations to take up arms against proslavery forces since he unsheathed his sword against slavery in Kansas Territory.
John Brown's Failed Raid on Harper's Ferry Was a Major Impetus for the U.S. Civil War by Kate Kershner Oct 16, 2017 John Brown had the ambitious goal of raiding Harper's Ferry and inciting a slave insurrection, but the raid didn't go as planned. Kean Collection/Getty Images When Malcolm X said in 1965 that white people have to be willing to do as old John Brown did to be a true ally for blacks' rights, his allusion to the abolitionist might've been startling to some.