edited by Newell G. Bringhurst and Darron T. Smith
University of Illinois Press, 2004
Paper: 978-0-252-07356-4 | Cloth: 978-0-252-02947-9 | eISBN: 978-0-252-09060-8
Library of Congress Classification BX8643.A35B57 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 289.308996073

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The year 2003 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the lifting of the ban excluding black members from the priesthood of the Mormon church. The articles collected in Newell G. Bringhurst and Darron T. Smith's Black and Mormon look at the mechanisms used to keep blacks from full participation, the motives behind the ban, and the kind of changes that have--and have not--taken place within the church since the revelation responsible for its end. 
 
This challenging collection is required reading for anyone concerned with the history of racism, discrimination, and the Latter-day Saints.