Pursuing the Historical Roots of Mormon Black Priesthood Denial: Personal Reflections and a Progress Report Involved in this panel discussion are three scholars, each of whom has written and published extensively on the issue of blacks of African ancestry and their changing place within Mormonism over the past 170 years. They will focus on two basic factors: (1) a retrospective overview of the motives of and methods and processes utilized by each author in pursuing this elusive, often controversial topic; (2) a brief ‘progress report” on scholarly research/writing on this issue done over the past twenty to thirty years.

Dennis Lythgoe, Armand L. Mauss