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Podcast: Mormon Stories Podcast
Episode: From Policy to Doctrine: The Mormon Priesthood and Temple Ban on Black Members | Ep. 1910
Description: Join with us today as we discuss the priesthood and temple ban with historian Matt Harris. Joseph F. Smith and Joseph Fielding Smith, both Mormon leaders, could not find any doctrinal bases for the priesthood and temple ban and yet it still remained for decades. Members of the church performed blackface and wrote racist poems published in church periodicals. Many of the Mormon leaders did not agree with the ban and some were even removed from their callings because of their different opinions.
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