George Q. Cannon supports upholding restriction in mixed-race scenarios to avoid "complications."

Date
Aug 22, 1895
Type
Meeting Minutes / Notes
Source
George Q. Cannon
LDS
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Reference

Typescript of First Presidency meeting Minutes, August 22, 1895, George Albert Smith Family Papers, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Box 78, Folder 7, pp. 1-2

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Unknown
People
George Q. Cannon
Audience
First Presidency, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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Transcription

It being understood that Mr. Berry was part negro, President [George Q.] Cannon raised the question: What would become of the girls? One at least of whom was in the Church, as they could not be admitted to the temple, and he thought it would be unfair to admit their mother and deny them this privilege. President Cannon thought too that to let down the bars in the least on this question would only tend to complications, and that it is perhaps better to let all such cases alone, believing, of course that the Lord would deal fairly with them all. President Woodruff assented to this.

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