3.9 Race, Priesthood, and David O’McKay

For Black History Month, we study Chapter 4 of David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism: “Blacks, Civil Rights, and the Priesthood.” The ban on black people holding the Priesthood was lifted in 1978.  The people, politics, and circumstances leading up to it, particularly in McKay’s time in the 50s and 60s, makes for a difficult, but fascinating conversation.  Struggle along with us as we grapple with the past to try and shape a better future.

David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory A Prince and WM Robert Wright

https://www.amazon.com/David-McKay-Rise-Modern-Mormonism/dp/0874808227

Leiland Tanner - Coat of Colors (Kolobyte Peculiar Mix), from Peculiar People by Kolobyte

https://kolobyte.bandcamp.com/track/leiland-tanner-coat-of-colors-kolobyte-peculiar-mix

Gospel topic: Race and the Priesthood

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/race-and-the-priesthood

Standing on the Promises, Book One: One More River to Cross, by Margaret Blair Young

https://amzn.to/3km0EGQ

Martin Luther King Jr:  Letter from a Birmingham jail

https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

Wiki: J Reuben Clark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Reuben_Clark#Racism_and_anti-Semitism

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein

https://amzn.to/2Nwaf22

Redlining

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

Why I Hate White Jesus, by James Goldberg

http://mormonmidrashim.blogspot.com/2020/05/why-i-hate-white-jesus.html

More on Anthony Obinna

https://www.thechurchnews.com/archives/2005-08-27/coming-full-circle-in-west-africa-90096

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVxNYQd4-v4