Foreword / L. Jackson Newell -- Introduction : conflict and commitment in an age of civil turmoil / Armand L. Mauss -- Mormonism and the Negro : faith, folklore, and civil rights / Armand L. Mauss -- A commentary on Stephen G. Taggart's Mormonism's Negro policy : social and historical origins / Lester E. Bush, Jr. -- Mormonism's Negro doctrine : an historical overview / Lester E. Bush, Jr. -- Elijah Abel and the changing status of blacks within Mormonism / Newell G. Bringhurst -- The fading of the pharaohs' curse : the decline and fall of the priesthood ban against blacks in the Mormon Church / Armand L. Mauss -- Whence the Negro doctrine? A review of ten years of answers / Lester E. Bush, Jr. -- Appendix : authoritative statements on the status of blacks, 1949-1978 -- Chronological bibliography on the Negro doctrine.
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