Curse of Cain?

Table of Contents

• Part One
  • Racism in the Book of Mormon
  • Who are the Lamanites?
  • Dark and Loathsome?
  • Lamanites and DNA
  • Israelites and Gentiles
  • Book of Moses
  • Trouble in Missouri
  • Abolitionists
  • Book of Abraham
  • Book of Abraham from Papyrus?
  • Doctrine of Pre-Existence
  • Patriarchal Blessings
  • Changing the Blood
• Part Two
  • Seed of Cain
  • A Black Devil?
  • Apostates Become Black?
  • Through the Flood
  • "Death on the Spot"
  • Segregated Blood
  • Early Black Converts
    • Black Pete
    • Elijah Abel
    • Abel's Descendants
    • Walker Lewis
    • Jane Manning James
    • William McCary
    • Samuel D. Chambers
  • Slaves in Utah Territory
    • Green Flake
    • Hark Lay
    • Oscar Crosby
    • Betsy Crosby
    • Dan
    • Venus
• Part Three
  • Twentieth Century Attitudes
  • Blacks not Proselytized
  • Summary of LDS Teaching on Blacks
  • Mission to Nigeria
  • Civil Rights
  • Martin Luther King
  • Is King a Mormon?
  • BYU Boycotted
  • First Presidency Statement
  • Problems Increase
  • Blacks at BYU
  • Vigilante Groups
  • The Mormon Choir
  • Genesis Group
  • Boy Scouts
  • Protest by Douglas Wallace
  • Officer Olson Shot
  • Byron Marchant
• Part Four
  • Problems in Brazil
  • Will Pressure Bring Change?
  • The 1978 Announcement
  • Brigham Young Misrepresented
  • Polygamists Oppose Giving Priesthood to Blacks
  • Intermarriage
  • Revelation Sustained at Fall Conference
  • How Did the Revelation Come?
  • What Constitutes Revelation?
  • Fighting Racism
  • Missionaries to Brazil
  • Work in Ghana
  • Minorities in Leadership
  • George P. Lee
  • Helvecio Martins
  • Prominent Black Converts to Mormonism
    • Eldridge Cleaver
    • Gladys Knight
    • Thurl Bailey
  • Current Attitudes
  • Conclusion

Appendix A

• Brigham Young's Address to Legislature Feb. 5, 1852
• Wilford Woodruff's Account of B. Young's Address

Appendix B

• "Race Problems—As They Affect The Church" Mark E. Petersen's Address on August 27, 1954 at BYU

Appendix C

• Joseph Fielding Smith letter to Joseph H. Henderson
• Joseph Fielding Smith letter to Morris L. Reynolds

Appendix D

• Genealogical Records of Prominent Black Activists

Bibliography