Dating the LDS Temple and Priesthood Ban: How the LDS Church Became a White Church by Building a Racial Wall and Erasing Blacks (Black Mormon History Book 8) (English Edition)

We’ve been talking a lot about the LDS ban on black church members, but when did the ban actually begin? Warner McCary seems to be the last person who might have been ordained as late as 1846. In 1921, Apostle David O. McKay didn’t even know that a ban existed. So when did the ban actually happen? We asked Dr. Paul Reeve, history professor at the University of Utah that question.