[…] those early months in New York and Ohio no mention was even made of Church attitudes towards blacks. The Gospel was for “all nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples,” and no exceptions were made. A […]
Dialogue 23.1 (Spring 1990): 11–36
A history of Black LDS social groups and organizations. The Genesis Group gave African Americans a better chance to connect with fellow African Americans through frequent socials. The first group […]
[…] (Fall 2018): 83–129
The priesthood revelation of 1978 eased some of the tension when the apostles affirmed that Blacks could now be “adopted into the House of Israel” as full participants in Mormon liturgical rites. […]
[…] the Priesthood, he ended a policy that for 130 years denied the priesthood to those having any black African ancestry. Now, just three years later—in a day when Eldredge Cleaver is talking about joining […]
Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 29–44Smith considers “why would any self-aware Black person find Mormonism the least bit appealing given its ignoble history of racial exclusion and marginalization?”
[…] those early months in New York and Ohio no mention was even made of Church attitudes towards blacks. The gospel was for “all nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples,” 1. and no exceptions were made. […]
[…] a problem in the American mind. On this subject the American mind as a whole—both white and black—is a shambles. McGeorge Bundy in THE STRENGTH OF GOVERNMENT As is true for most Americans, I […]
[…] (Fall 2021): 1–76
Given the inadequate tools to police racial boundaries, LDS Church leaders like Joseph Fielding Smith struggled to define precisely where Black and light-skinned Latter-day Saints fit into the Church’s conception of soteriology.
[…] and changing our generations old myth-based paradigm—however subconscious it may be. Alice Faulkner Burch What role did anti- Black racism and white supremacy play in the growth of the Mormon movement and key institutions of […]
[…] Culture,” 43. For more on the commissioning of these artists, see Robert T. Barrett and Susan Easton Black, “Setting a Standard in LDS Art: Four Illustrators of the Mid-Twentieth Century,” BYU Studies Quarterly 44, […]