For the cause of righteousness
Subtitle: a global history of blacks and Mormonism, 1830-2013
By: Russell Stevenson
Publisher: Greg Kofford Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9781589585294; 9781589585300
Subjects: African American Mormons; History; Race relations; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Mormon Church
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( pages 359-413) and index.
Table of contents: title: Black and white, bond and free, 1830-47; title: Cursed, 1845-90; title: The long night, 1890-1960; title: Dawning : from Aba to Detroit, 1946-75; title: This Negro problem : Mormons and the U.S. Civil Rights Era; title: The world is ready : 1970-78; title: Repairers of the breach; title: Making race in Mormonism, 1833-47; title: Origins of the priesthood ban : 1847-1849; title: White Zion : 1852-1903; title: A sleep and a forgetting : losing the black Mormon heritage, 1902-49; title: American Mormons struggle with civil rights : 1953-69; title: Reconciliation, then truth : 1971-2013.