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‘Mormon Land’: How Spencer Kimball won over apostle Bruce McConkie, other LDS titans to end the Black priesthood ban

New book goes behind the scenes to reveal the divisions among top church leaders and how progressive members and authorities worked for decades to change the racist policy.

(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) A choir for the Genesis Group, a support congregation for Black Latter-day Saints, rehearses in 2016. Matthew Harris' new book, “Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality,” examines the faith's former priesthood/temple ban from its racist roots to the decades after its removal.