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Podcast: Mormon Land
Episode: The discovery about a prominent LDS pioneer holds lessons about racial profiling | Episode 404
Description: For many early Utah pioneers, James Brown Jr. was a hero of sorts. He led a Mormon Battalion company into the Salt Lake Valley just days after Brigham Young. He and his family settled Ogden, which became known for a time as Brownsville, and he served as a Latter-day Saint bishop.
As a prominent leader, he married 13 women — all sealed to him in temple rites — and fathered 28 children.
What most church members didn’t know was that James Jr. had Black grandparents — and that carries significance, given that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints h...