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Black segregation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was a part of the religion for over a century. The LDS church discouraged social interaction or marriage with Black people and encouraged racial segregation .
The Manti, Utah-based True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days (TLC) branched off from the LDS church in 1990 and as of 2008, it adhered to teachings and practices which were similar to the teachings and practices which were historically adhered to by the LDS church, including the Black temple and priesthood ban, the ...
[142] In an interview with Mormon Century, Jason Smith expressed his viewpoint that the membership of the church was not ready for Black people to have the priesthood in the early years of the church, because of prejudice and Black enslavement. He drew analogies to the Bible where only the Israelites have the gospel.
During the first century of its existence, the LDS Church discouraged social interaction with blacks and encouraged racial segregation. Joseph Smith, who is considered a prophet in the LDS Church, supported segregation, stating, "I would confine them [black people] by strict law to their own species".
Some LDS Church-sponsored troops permitted black youth to join, but a church policy required that the troop leader to be the deacons quorum president, which had the result of excluding black children from that role. [40] The NAACP filed a federal lawsuit in 1974 challenging this practice, and soon thereafter the LDS Church reversed its policy ...
Nearly 300 Black churches in Florida are offering Black history lessons in ... movement in the wake of attacks on education. The Miami church, whose congregation is majority Black, was founded in ...
Before 1978, relatively few Black people who joined the church retained active membership. [12] Those who did, often faced discrimination. LDS Church apostle Mark E. Petersen describes a Black family that tried to join the LDS Church: "[some white church members] went to the Branch President, and said that either the [Black] family must leave, or they would all leave.
Nauvoo, Illinois was reported to have 22 Black members, including free and enslaved individuals, between 1839–1843 (Late Persecution of the Church of Latter-day Saints, 1840). In the evening debated with John C. Bennett and others to show that the Indians have greater cause to complain of the treatment of the whites, than the negroes or sons ...