Helvecio Martins, from Brazil, sustained as a General Authority on March 31, 1990. |
| Blacks |
| "Despite the cultural miscommunications that remain, black Latter-day Saints enjoy opportunities in all phases of Church activity, including missionary work, quorum leadership, bishoprics, and stake presidencies, along with other members. The first entirely black African stake was organized in 1988. Indeed, black Latter-day Saints may be an LDS historical enigma that has emerged as a prime example of success in LDS brotherhood and sisterhood." Encyclopedia of Mormonism |
| Revelation on Priesthood |
| Elder Bruce R. McConkie gives his personal testimony of the revelation allowing African Blacks to hold the holy priesthood, describes how the revelation was received, and discusses its historical significance. |
| African Converts Without Baptism |
| E. Dale LeBaron, BYU professor of Church history, gives a unique and inspiring chapter in Church history. |
| Blacks and the Priesthood |
| "For several years, the author has been using the following information to help members, as well as missionaries, to come to a better understanding of this sensitive and difficult issue, and to demonstrate (contrary to what the critics might say) the consistency of the Church in its former policy of restricting the privilege of ordination to the Holy Priesthood, from members of Black African descent, and its subsequent rescinding of the same." by D. Charles Pyle |
| Are Mormons Prejudiced? |
| W. John Walsh shows that the Church teaches against racial prejudice. |
| Official Declaration 2 |
| "Declaration 2 revealed that the "long-promised day has come when every faithful, worthy man in the Church may receive the holy priesthood." Encyclopedia of Mormonism |
| (See Daily Living home page; Church History home page) |
