3.9 Race, Priesthood, and David O’McKay Face in Hat

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