Dialogue studies the priesthood ban

A compendium of essential Dialogue articles related to the priesthood ban: 

Spring 1973: Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine: An Historical Overview by Lester Bush, Jr.: Though it may not be admitted as such, this now famous article did more for the changing of the priesthood ban than any other before it.
Spring 1973: Lester Bush’s Historical Overview: Other Perspectives by Gordon C. Thomasson: In the same issue as the above, Thomasson asks some pointed questions of Lester Bush’s research and findings.
Spring 1973: The Mormon Cross by Eugene England. Also in this issue England wrote “We Mormons have our own special cross—one which must weigh heavily on our hearts if we are truly trying to live our religion as Paul recommends: proving all things, holding fast that which is good. When God asks us, as we believe He does, not to give blacks of African descent the priesthood at this time, He asks us to sacrifice not only our political and social ideals and the understanding and good will of our colleagues and friends, but seems to ask us to sacrifice the very essence of His own teachings—the divine potential of all His children, the higher ethical vision of possible exaltation for all people, concepts that are among the most attractive and vital features of our faith.”

Then the following are listed in chronological order:

Before the ban was lifted in June 1978:
Winter 1969:  A Commentary on Stephen G. Taggart’s Mormonism’s Negro Policy: Social and Historical Origins By Lester Bush
Autumn 1970: The Manipulation of History Review by Marvin Hill
Spring 1971: A University’s Dilemma: B.Y.U. and Blacks By Brian Walton
Spring 1972: Moderation in all Things: Political and Social Outlooks of Modern Urban Mormons by Armand Mauss
After the ban was lifted in June 1978 (see below to see the special one year anniversary issue in Summer 1979):
Fall 1984: Mormon Priesthood and Black Brazilians by Mark L. Grover
Fall 1990: Separate but Equal? Black Branches, Genesis Groups, or Integrated Wards? By Jessie Embry
Fall 1990: The Mormon Priesthood Revelation and the Sao Paulo, Brazil Temple by Mark L. Grover
Spring 1992: On Becoming a Universal Church: Some Historical Perspectives by James B. Allen
Winter 1992: Selective Bibliography on African-Americans and Mormons 1830-1990 Compiled by Chester Lee Hawkins
Winter 1994: The Fading Curse of Cain: Mormonism in South Africa by Andrew Clark
Winter 1994: “No Respecter of Persons”: A Mormon Ethics of Diversity by Eugene England
Spring 1999: The Mark of the Curse: Lingering Racism in Mormon Doctrine? By Keith E. Norman
Spring 2002: David O. McKay and Blacks: Building the Foundation for the 1978 Revelation by Gregory L. Prince
Spring 2003: A Frank Analysis of a Troubling Legacy Reviewed by Thomas W. Murphy
And don’t miss…

Dialogue Journal Summer 1979: 

An issue dedicated to looking at the lifting of the Priesthood ban one year earlier.

1	Dreijmanis, Ruta Franceska	Front Cover – Untitled
7	Taylor, Clarence, Jr.	Untitled
8	Taylor, Clarence, Jr.	Untitled
9	Taylor, Clarence, Jr.	Untitled
11	Bush, Lester E., Jr.	Introduction
15	Editors of Dialogue	Saint Without Priesthood: The Collected Testimonies of Ex-Slave Samuel D. Chambers
16	Church Historical Department	Untitled
17	Church Historical Department	Untitled
24	Phillips, Bob	Untitled
24	Bringhurst, Newell G.	Elijah Abel and the Changing Status of Blacks Within Mormonism
39	Russell, William D.	A Priestly Role for a Prophetic Church: The RLDS Church and Black Americans
51	Taylor, Clarence, Jr.	Untitled
52	Eastmond, J. Nicholls, Jr.	The New Revelation: A Personal View
56	Smart, M. Neff	The Challenge of Africa
59	Taylor, Clarence, Jr.	Untitled
60	Thayne, Emma Lou	To the Bedouin Woman
61	Taylor, Clarence, Jr.	Untitled
61	Thayne, Emma Lou	Bedouin Lullaby
62	McMurrin, Sterling M.	A Note on the 1963 Civil Rights Statement
65	Taylor, Clarence, Jr.	Untitled
66	Smith, George D., Jr.	The Negro Doctrine — An Afterview
70	Clark, J. Reuben, Jr.	When Are the Writings or Sermons of Church Leaders Entitled to the Claim of Scripture?
84	Hansen, Susan Taylor	Women Under the Law
93	Bradford, M. Gerald	Response to Jung and Freud
97	Stathis, Stephen W.	A Survey of Current Literature
97	Thatcher, Linda	A Survey of Current Literature
101	Gillum, Gary P.	General Authority Bibliography
101	Stathis, Stephen W.	General Authority Bibliography
126	Poll, Richard D.	State-of-the-Art-Mormon-History: The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints
128	Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher	Out of the Slot: Patriarchs and Politics: The Plight of Mormon Women by Marilyn Warenski
130	Allred, Gordon	Out of Another Best Book: The Joy of Reading—An LDS Family Anthology. Edited by Robert K. Thomas
132	Goss, Peter L.	Sacred Architecture: The Early Temples of the Mormons: The Architecture of the Millennial Kin in the American West
133	Reynolds, Noel B.	World-Wide: The Expanding Church by Spencer J. Palmer
134	Windt, Peter Y.	The Last Anecdotes: Deity and Death. Edited by Spencer J. Palmer
135	Moorman, Donald R.	Panorama of the First Century: A Mormon Bibliography, 1830-1930
136	Paul, Erich Robert	Natural Theology: Science and Religion in America, 1800-1860 by Herbert Hovenkamp
139	Sessions, Gene A.	Brief Notices