The new relationship between the Mormons and the NAACP is an improbable breakthrough, but one that is welcomed by both sides
EVEN AS American debates over race and identity turn increasingly toxic, one of the country’s most powerful religious groups and one of its most venerable anti-racist groups have taken a step in the opposite direction.
For the NAACP, making friends with the LDS was a difficult journey, steered by a handful of individuals in the movement’s leadership and initially resisted by some members. The rapprochement has been in high gear since the spring of 2018. In purely human terms, the groups got better acquainted when the NAACP’s current president, Derrick Johnson, accompanied an LDS lawyer on a trip to Tanzania in 2010.
As the 2013 article, which is understood to have been co-authored by a prominent African-American LDS member, bluntly explains, such exclusions were rooted in racist religious myths that were not confined to the early Mormons: for example, the idea that black people inherit a curse from the Biblical figure of Cain. By the 1970s, these restrictions had become bitterly controversial, bringing opprobrium on the sports teams fielded by Brigham Young University, a Mormon institution.
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