Historian Matthew Harris discusses his new book, “Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality,” abut the LDS Church's former priesthood/temple ban, from its racist roots under Brigham Young, to its removal and its aftermath with an eye especially on its effects on Black Latter-day Saints.
New book reveals the divisions among top LDS leaders and how President Spencer W. Kimball won approval for the momentous change.
A choir for the Genesis Group, a support congregation for Black Latter-day Saints, rehearses in 2016. Matthew Harris' new book, “Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality,” examines the faith's former priesthood/temple ban from its racist roots to the decades after its removal.This historic shift, the most significant since the faith stopped practicing polygamy, abruptly ended this racist ban, but it hardly ended racism within the church.
Spencer W. Kimball, right, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with counselor Marion G. Romney, presides over a session of General Conference in October 1978, when the lifting of the priesthood/temple ban was officially endorsed by members.With unprecedented access to the papers of Kimball, McConkie, Hugh B.
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