Item Detail
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8912
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34
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English
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Would-Be Saints : West Africa before the 1978 Priesthood Revelation
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Journal of Mormon History
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1991
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17
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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207-47
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[1992 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Article]
In the 1960s, considerable interest was generated among black people in Nigeria and Ghana in having the Church be established in those nations. Church leaders proceded with great caution, sending missionary representatives to observe and teach. The caution of the Church created much frustration in the hearts of hundreds of anxious black investigators. The policy of denying the priesthood to blacks was the cause of the Church's cautious approach to the situation. A halting attempt was begun to send missionaries to teach and establish branches in West Africa, but it was discontinued abruptly by Church leaders in 1965. Not until the 1978 revelation granting priesthood to blacks was announced did the Church really engage in a sincere effort to officially establish the Church in West Africa.
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A Faithful Band : Moses Mahlangu and the First Soweto Saints
All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
"A Marvelous Work": Reading Mormonism in West Africa
An International LDS Trio, 1974-1997
Black and Mormon
Confidence Amid Change : The Presidential Diaries of David O. McKay, 1951-1970
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
Evaluating Fifty Years of Scholarship on the Racial Restriction
First Vision : Memory and Mormon Origins
From Galatia to Ghana : The Racial Dynamic in Mormon History
From the Outside Looking In : Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
Global Mormonism : A Historical Overview
Gobert Edet and the Entry of the RLDS Church into Southeastern Nigeria - 1962-1966
In this Time of Crisis : The Race-Based Anti-BYU Athletic Protests of 1968-1971
Let's Talk About Race and Priesthood
Letting Go : Understanding Mormon Growth in Africa
Mormonism and Race
Mormon Studies in Africa
Nigerian Converts, Mormon Missionaries, and the Priesthood Revelation : Mormonism in Nigeria, 1946-1978
On Becoming a Universal Church : Some Historical Perspectives
On Fire in Baltimore : Black Mormon Women and Conversion in a Raging City
Out of Obscurity : Mormonism Since 1945
Revisiting Thomas F. O'Dea's The Mormons : Contemporary Perspectives
Saints in the Land of the Porcupine : A Study of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Ashanti Region, Ghana
Tensions in David O. Mckay's First Presidencies
The Angel and the Beehive : The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Celestial City : “Mormonism” and American Identity in Post-Independence Nigeria
The LDS Church and the Problem of Race : Mormonism in Nigeria, 1946–1978
The Mormon Church and Blacks : A Documentary History
The Peril and Promise of Social Prognosis : O'Dea and the Race Issue
Toward a Catholic History of Mormonism
"We Have Prophetesses" : Mormonism in Ghana, 1964-79
What is Mormonism? A Student’s Introduction
"Would That All God's People Were Prophets” : Mormonism and the New Shape of Global Christianity -
All Are Alike Unto God : Fascinating Conversion Stories of African Saints
Brother to Brother : The Story of the Latter-day Saint Missionaries Who Took the Gospel to Black Africa
From Burundi to Zaire : Taking the Gospel to Africa
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
History of the South African Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1853-1970
Hugh B. Brown in His Final Years
Mormonism and Music : A History
Mormonism in Black Africa : Changing Attitudes and Practices, 1830-1981
Mormons in West Africa : New Terrain for the Sesquicentennial Church
Saints, Slaves, and Blacks : The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism
The Challenge of Africa
The Dawning of a Brighter Day : The Church in Black Africa
The Fading of the Pharaoh's Curse : The Decline and Fall of the Priesthood Ban against Blacks in the Mormon Church