The Mormon Church and Blacks : a documentary history / edited by Matthew L. Harris and Newell G. Bringhurst.
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TextPublisher: Urbana, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2015Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (233 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780252097843 (e-book)
- African American Mormons -- History -- Sources
- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Mormon Church -- History -- Sources
- Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History -- Sources
- Priesthood -- Mormon Church -- History -- Sources
- Priesthood -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History -- Sources
- 289.3089/96 23
- BX8643.A35 .M676 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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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