The Mormon Church and blacks : a documentary history / edited by Matthew L. Harris and Newell G. Bringhurst.
Material type: TextPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (x, 217 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780252097843
- 025209784X
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- African American Mormons -- History -- Sources
- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- History -- Sources
- Priesthood -- Mormon Church -- History -- Sources
- RELIGION -- Christianity -- Denominations
- African American Mormons
- Priesthood -- Mormon Church
- Race relations -- Religious aspects
- 289.3089/96 23
- BX8643.A35 M66 2015
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mormon scriptural works : providing a canonical framework for race, slavery, and the status of Black people -- Joseph Smith and evolving Mormon attitudes and practices on slavery and race, 1830-1844 -- Brigham Young, the beginning black priesthood denial, and legalization of slavery in Utah, 1844-1877 -- Justifying and perpetuating black priesthood denial, 1877-1949 -- Church growth, confronting civil rights, and official affirmations of black priesthood denial, 1945-1970 -- The 1978 revelation and its implications -- Confronting the church's problematic racial past after 1978.
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