Blacks and the Mormon Priesthood

In a private Church council three years after Joseph Smith's death, Brigham Young praised Q. Walker Lewis, a black man who had been ordained to the priesthood, ...

Black people and temple and priesthood policies in the Church of ...

Black people and temple and priesthood policies in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ... From 1852 to 1978, temple and priesthood policies in the ...

Why Did the Church Deny the Priesthood to Black People until 1978?

I'm simply looking for an answer; what was the theological rationale for this at the time? How do theologians today explain the change?

Blacks and the Priesthood - Fair Latter Day Saints

Elijah Abel, a black man, was ordained to the Priesthood by the Prophet Joseph Smith in 1836, and ordained a Seventy by Zebedee Coltrin on April 4, 1841. He was ...

Black people and Mormonism - Wikipedia

The temple and priesthood racial restrictions were lifted by church leaders in 1978. In 2013, the LDS Church disavowed its previous teachings on race for the ...

Blacks and the Mormon Priesthood: Setting the Record Straight

Blacks and the Mormon Priesthood is an attempt by Marcus H. Martins to explain why the LDS doctrine banning blacks to the LDS priesthood before June 1978 was ...

Priesthood and Temple Restriction

During the first two decades of the Church's existence, a few black men were ordained to the priesthood. ... Black Mormon (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019) ...

Discussing Difficult Topics: Race and the Priesthood

We know that a couple of black Latter-day Saints were ordained to the priesthood, and we know that Joseph Smith was aware of and sanctioned at least one of ...

Blacks and the Priesthood - Blacklatterdaysaints.org

1978: Revelation on Priesthood gives the priesthood to all worthy men regardless of color. 1990: Helvecio Martins becomes first black General Authority Seventy.

Brigham Young may have started the priesthood ban on blacks, but ...

Recent research into the history of the LDS priesthood/temple ban on blacks — which ended June 8, 1978 — puts the prohibition's origin ...

The Real Story of the Priesthood-Temple Ban - Terryl Givens with ...

There's no documented evidence of Joseph Smith ever articulating a racial priesthood or temple restriction. Terryl Givens: What a great beginning. Paul Reeve: ...

Unexplaining the Mormon Priesthood Ban on Blacks

The Church disavows the theories advanced in the past that black skin is a sign of divine disfavor or curse, or that it reflects unrighteous actions in a ...

Origin of the priesthood ban - Fair Latter Day Saints

Members of the Church who were considered to be of African descent were restricted from holding the LDS Church's lay priesthood prior to 1978.

What was the Latter-day Saint Black priesthood ban? Ep. 149

From the mid-1800s until 1978, Black men were not permitted priesthood ordination within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Blacks and the Priesthood in the Mormon Church

There should be no doubts after reading this about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' position prior to 1978 on Blacks and the priesthood.

'Mormon Land': Black priesthood ban didn't come from God or ...

Latter-day Saint historian W. Paul Reeve spells out how Brigham Young, in blunt and bigoted language, instituted a racist policy that lasted for more than a ...

Mormons and the NAACP – Blacks and the Priesthood

The church denied the priesthood to any and all black members. The doctrine was (and still is as explained in the Book of Mormon) that dark skin ...

The Prohibition Against Blacks in the Priesthood - PBS

Until the early 1960s there had not been overt pressure on the church to reverse this ban on ordaining blacks to the priesthood, ...

LDS Gospel Topics Essay: Race and the Priesthood (Annotated)

As the Book of Mormon puts it, “all are alike unto God.”1 (At the end of this section are the many scriptural references to why the church banned blacks from ...

Setting the Record Straight: Blacks & the Mormon Priesthood

For over a century The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prohibited the ordination of men who had Black African ancestry to offices in its ...