[…] 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 […]
[…] detailing the origins and his tory of the (then) current Mormon policy of denying the priesthood to black males. Providing the most thorough study of the policy to date, Bush examined all available primary […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] Proposed to Those who Had Attended the University of Edinburgh Within the Last Twelve Years (Edinburgh: A. Black, 1828), 142–45; “Items,” The Geneva Gazette, and General Advertiser, June 17, 1829, , https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=tgg18290617-01.1.1; “Germany,” The […]
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<i>Dialogue 12.2 (Summer 1979): 22–36</i><br>Elijah Abel, a black man ordained to the priesthood, was restricted in his church participation starting in 1843, even though he was well respected by both members and leaders. Newell […]
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[…] regarded Mormons as racists because of the church’s policy of refusing to confer priesthood on anyone of black African ancestry. Benson’s parting message at the Logan tabernacle in December 1963 also sounded inflammatory. The […]
[…] September 1948, Joseph Lyman Jessop traveled from his third wife’s home in the Salt Lake Valley to Black Canyon, about ten miles south of Antimony in central Utah. The homes of his first two […]
[…] introductory heading to the canonized 1978 First Presidency letter announcing the end of the racial ban on black males’ priesthood ordination cites Second Nephi to frame the revelatory text that follows: “The Book of […]