How BYU Kept Black Students Out | Ep. 1935

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Join us as we uncover what drove change within the Mormon Church, from government pressure on BYU to admit more black students to the church’s troubling response. We’ll dive into shocking letters sent to black prospective students, a five-step plan to keep them out, and the protests that followed. Learn how government intervention eventually forced the end of discrimination and explore why Mormon leaders were so uneasy with black students. This episode, featuring historian Dr. Matthew Harris, is part of our series on his book Second Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories podcast. I'm your host
0:03.9	John Delinn. It is June 24th, 2024 and we are here today in part nine of what I think is a really important series on this book, Second Class Saints, Black Mormons,
0:18.0	and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Dr Matthew Harris.
0:22.0	Today we are going to be discussing a groundbreaking
0:28.0	Institute changing civil rights investigation that happened at Brigham Young University in the late
0:37.1	1960s that frankly led to be why you being willing to have black athletes. So if you've ever wondered when did
0:46.6	be why you start a did be why you ever have a ban on black athletes when When was that lifted?
0:54.0	And then what led to be why you having black athletes?
0:57.0	And what started pressuring be why you to have black professors
1:02.0	and to, you know be open to recruiting or not
1:06.8	discouraging the attendance of black students today is your episode. Really quickly this this is part of a hopefully a 20 part
1:18.4	series on the book and we want to remind you all that this series is best enjoyed in sequence.
1:25.0	There's eight that we've already recorded before this.
1:27.0	So we invite you all to go back and check it out.
1:31.0	This series can be found on Spotify, on Apple Podcasts, and as its own YouTube
1:37.4	playlist. And we also just want to remind you that we are, more Miss stories is putting up half the funds to pay Matt for his time, Dr. Harris for his time.
1:50.0	And we're asking you, those of you who aren't already donors, to Mormon Stories and the Old Bistories Foundation, who value this content to become donors for this specific project.
2:02.0	100% of your donations, if you donate through the link will go to
2:04.9	Matt and you can cancel your donations when the series is over if you want. But all you gotta do is go to
2:12.2	donorbox.org
2:13.2	slash Matt Harris and donate.
2:16.2	And if there's just a donor of means
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