Darkies

Image: Joseph Fielding Smith


Excerpt from a 1963 Look Magazine interview with Joseph Fielding Smith:[footnote]Look Magazine, Oct 22, 1963, p. 79 [/footnote]

“I would not want you to believe that we bear any animosity toward the Negro. ‘Darkies’ are a wonderful people, and they have their place in our church.”



Crash Course:

Blacks and the Priesthood – Mormon Think
Black people in Mormon doctrine – Wikipedia
Statements about race in the Book of Mormon – Religious Tolerance
Race and the Priesthood Essay – LDS.org
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