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Martin Luther King Jr. and Mormonism: Dialogue, Race, and Pluralism
This essay provides an outline for how to have a more robust intrafaith dialogue about race among members of the LDS church. Using principles from Martin Luther King, Jr. about dialogue on race, Whitaker argues…
Mormons & Lineage: The Complicated History of Blacks & Patriarchal Blessings, 1830–2018
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. But this doctrinal…
The Possessive Investment in Rightness: White Supremacy and the Mormon Movement
Brooks explains that “Mormons will have to choose to acknowledge the pivotal and pervasive role of white supremacy in the founding of LDS institutions and the growth of the Mormon movement.”
Negotiating Black Self-Hate within the LDS Church
Smith considers “why would any self-aware Black person find Mormonism the least bit appealing given its ignoble history of racial exclusion and marginalization?”
Every Soul Has Its South
In this important artcile in one of the earliest Dialogue issues, Keller says “I went because I was frankly worried: worried that my wife and children should find me slipping after talking intense brotherhood, worried…
Mormonism and the Negro: Faith, Folklore and Civil Rights
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.
A Commentary of Stephen G. Taggart’s Mormonism’s Negro Policy: Social and Historical Origins
Lester E Bush wrote in response to Stephen G Taggart’s book which the author tried to show that the Church came from abololonist ideas because the Church was orginially founded in New York, but when…
The Manipulation of History: Can We Manipulate the Past? By Fawn Brodie
Marvin S Hill was responding to Fawn Brodie’s lecture at the Hotel Utah in 1970 called “Can We Manipulate the Past?” Her point in giving it was she was claiming that the people in charge…
A University’s Dilemma: B.Y.U. and Blacks
Brian Walton, the BYU student body president in 1969-70 wrote this article to adress race issues head on. During BYU’s 1969-70 academic year, because of the church’s policy of denying blacks the priesthood and temple…
Responses and Perspectives: The Mormon Cross
Responding to Bush, Eugene England compared the story of Abraham which is uncomfortable for him calling it a cross, to the church wide policy of denying anyone who has black ancestry the priesthood and temple…