Darkies – LDS quote meme from Missed in Sunday School

Darkies

Image: Joseph Fielding Smith


Excerpt from a 1963 Look Magazine interview with Joseph Fielding Smith:1

“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.”



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References

References
1 Look Magazine, Oct 22, 1963, p. 79 

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