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The Mormon Church and blacks : a documentary history / edited by Matthew L. Harris and Newell G. Bringhurst.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (x, 217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252097843
  • 025209784X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mormon Church and blacks.DDC classification:
  • 289.3089/96 23
LOC classification:
  • BX8643.A35 M66 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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