TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harris,Matthew L.
AU  - Bringhurst,Newell G.
TI  - The Mormon Church and Blacks: a documentary history 
AV  - BX8643.A35 .M676 2015eb
U1  - 289.3089/96 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Urbana, [Illinois]
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - African American Mormons
KW  - History
KW  - Sources
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Mormon Church
KW  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
KW  - Priesthood
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=11137418
ER  -