Item Detail
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26035
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English
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A Faithful Band : Moses Mahlangu and the First Soweto Saints
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BYU Studies Quarterly
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55
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1
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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8-38
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[2017 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Article Award of Excellence]
Having found a copy of the Book of Mormon sometime in the 1960s and sought baptism, a small group of black South Africans were denied admission into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints until 1980. Contemporary documents show that beyond the Church's long-standing policy restricting ordination and temple worship for persons of black African descent, leaders' fears of running afoul of local laws and practices in apartheid-era South Africa led to the delay. The group waited for more than a decade, showing exemplary faith, humility, and patience.
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A Reflection from an African Convert on Official Declaration 2
Finding Peace, Claiming Place : Black South African Women Navigating the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mormons and Lineage : The Complicated History of Blacks and Patriarchal Blessings, 1830-2018
The LDS Church and the Problem of Race : Mormonism in Nigeria, 1946–1978 -
Adventures of a Church Historian
A History of the South African Mission, 1852-1970
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
For the Cause of Righteousness : A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism, 1830-2013
In the Lord's Due Time
Mormonism and the Negro
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Spencer W. Kimball and the Revelation on Priesthood
The Fading Curse of Cain : Mormonism in South Africa
Thirty Years after the "Long Promised Day"
Would-Be Saints : West Africa before the 1978 Priesthood Revelation