Professor Confronts Mormon Leaders on Racism - Lowry Nelson | 2CS 03 | Ep. 1913

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 162 minutes

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Summary

In 1947, Lowry Nelson, a respected Mormon academic, challenged the LDS Church's racist policies in a series of letters to top leadership. Occurring on the cusp of the Civil Rights Movement, the First Presidency reacted by doubling down on encoding white supremacy into Mormon doctrine. Nelson wasn't ready to give up though and continued to flirt with excommunication by publishing his correspondence with the brethren in a national magazine. Explore with us the story behind these letters and the national reaction once they became public.Purchase Matt Harris’ book, Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality Donate to Matt Harris directly for this series with Donorbox You can read The Lowry Nelson Letters directly on our website: Lowry Nelson 1st Presidency Exchange [PDF] --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mormonstories/message

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0:27.7	hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories podcast I'm your
0:31.2	host John Delin it is June 6, 2024. We are here for part 3 of our
0:37.3	amazing epic groundbreaking series on this book Second Class Saints, Black Mormons, and the
0:45.8	struggle for racial equality by Dr Matthew Harris.
0:50.3	As those of you know, we're doing a deep dive into the Mormon churches
0:56.8	priesthood and temple ban on black people that lasted for over 150 years.
1:01.8	And this is not only integrated into the Mormon
1:06.0	Story's podcast feed but it's also its own standalone podcast on Spotify
1:10.1	and on Apple Podcast wherever you get your podcast. Today we're going to be covering one of the most
1:16.0	important heroes in 20th century Mormonism or maybe in all of Mormonism and his name is
1:26.2	Larry Nelson Dr Larry Nelson I assume he is a PhD will I'm pretty sure he was
1:31.5	but this is a man who stood up for you know black
1:39.7	members of the church stood even spoke out against the priesthood ban in the 40s, 1940s and 50s and
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