Joseph Fielding Smith’s Evolving Views on Race: The Odyssey of a Mormon Apostle-President
Matthew L. Harris
Listen to the Out Loud Interview about this article here. In 1963, Joseph Henderson, a non-Mormon from New York, wrote a pointed letter to LDS Church apostle Joseph Fielding Smith asking him about the racial teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[1] The letter triggered a sharp...
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