This session is a discussion of the relationship between the NAACP and the LDS Church, which went through four phases: (1) the LDS Church being ignorant of the existence of the NAACP, (2) contention between the two organizations, (3) cautious recognition of the existence of the two organizations, and (4) friendly cooperation between the two …
Speaker: Robert A Greenwell
222. The Marshall Family and the “One-Drop Rule”
It was alleged that the grandmother of a family in Fillmore, Utah, who had joined the LDS Church in rural Alabama in 1896 and had come to Utah in 1905, had black African ancestry. Though her grandchildren showed no African American characteristics, the males were denied priesthood ordination and the family was denied access to …