From Elder Ezra Taft Benson Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, 1967:[footnote]Ezra Taft Benson, Conference Report, October 1967, pp. 34-39[/footnote]

False solicitude for the unfortunate

“Such timely counsel could help save our country from Communism, as the same masters of deceit are showing the same false solicitude for the unfortunate in the name of civil rights.

Now there is nothing wrong with civil rights; it is what’s being done in the name of civil rights that is alarming.

There is no doubt that the so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America just as agrarian reform was used by the Communists to take over China and Cuba.

This shocking statement can be confirmed by an objective study of Communist literature and activities and by knowledgeable Negroes and others who have worked within the Communist movement.

As far back as 1928, the Communists declared that the cultural, economic, and social differences between the races in America could be exploited by them to create the animosity, fear, and hatred between large segments of our people that would be necessary beginning ingredients for their revolution.”

Crash Course:

Race and the Priesthood – LDS Gospel Topic Essay
Ezra Taft Benson, Conference Report, October 1967, pp. 34-39
Mormons are not Racist (Video) – Brother Jake
Letter from Apostle Delbert Stapley to Governor George Romney – Topic: Race and civil rights.
Mormonism and the Negro – John J. Stewart