Mormonism and the Negro: Faith, Folklore and Civil Rights

1967: Armand L. Mauss, “Mormonism and the Negro: Faith, Folklore and Civil Rights” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 2 No. 4 (1967):19–40.

In this historical analysis, Mauss argues that starting in the 1850s, the church started to deny priesthood and temple blessings to anyone who had even a trace of African ancestry.