Image: Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Activist
Excerpt from Historian D. Michael Quinn’s article on ‘Utah Mormon discrimination against the Blacks’:
[footnote]Prelude to the National “Defense of Marriage” Campaign: Civil Discrimination Against Feared or Despised Minorities – D. Michael Quinn [/footnote]
‘In 1953, a First Presidency secretary also informed a white Mormon about the less-obvious extent of Utah’s racial segregation: “The L.D.S. Hospital here in Salt Lake City has a blood bank which does not contain any colored blood.” According to presidency counselor J. Reuben Clark, this policy of segregating African-American blood from the blood donated by so-called “white people” was intended “to protect the purity of the blood streams of the people of this Church.”’
Crash Course:
Race and the Priesthood Essay – LDS.org
Statements about race in the Book of Mormon – Religious Tolerance
Black people in Mormon doctrine – Wikipedia
Blacks and the Priesthood – Mormon Think
Prelude to the National “Defenseof Marriage” Campaign: Civil Discrimination Against Feared or Despised Minorities – D. Michael Quinn
Mormons and the NAACP – Blacks and the Priesthood – wasmormon.org