He marched in dozens of protests for peace and civil rights and was arrested over 97 times.
[2] Harris arrived in Ogden, Utah, in 1956, when he opened the town's first Black-owned grocery store and a barbecue restaurant.
He was a minister of the Church of God in Christ and preached every other Sunday at the Utah State Prison.
In November 1976, he became the first Black person elected to the Utah State Legislature.
On November 14, 1979, he conducted a solo protest against the Ku Klux Klan at the state capitol.