18 Facts About Black Mormons

Black Mormons membership has continued to grow substantially, especially in West Africa, where two temples have been built.

Black Mormons was baptized as a member of the LDS Church at age 16 in the Mississippi River, but remained a slave.

Black Mormons was baptized secretly at the age of thirteen when he was still a slave in Mississippi.

Black Mormons was unable to join the main body of the church and lost track of them until after the Civil War.

Black Mormons was thirty-eight when he had saved enough money to emigrate to Utah with his wife and son.

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Black Mormons accepted it as her personal mission to prove to the world that there were in fact African-American Mormons and that the Mormons were not racist.

Black Mormons toured with the choir for two years before accepting her appointment on the faculty at BYU.

Black Mormons was employed in the training of nurses and tried to help them become more culturally aware.

Black Mormons met on multiple occasions with Joseph F Smith before returning to South Africa.

Black Mormons was in regular contact with the mission presidents.

Black Mormons had previously been an area seventy and his wife Dorah had been a member of the Young Women General Board.

Black Mormons was serving as stake president of the Soweto Stake at the time of his call.

Black Mormons had found success in his professional life but felt unfulfilled with the religious life he was pursuing.

Black Mormons was not troubled by the priesthood restriction, but others were.

Black Mormons had resolved the issue in his own mind and never expected to receive the priesthood.

Black Mormons's son was one of the first three people of black African descent to serve a full-time mission for the church in nearly 100 years.

Black Mormons cited a variety of factors, including the fact that some European churches benefited from a long-standing colonial presence in Africa; the hesitance of the LDS church to expand missionary efforts into black Africa during the priesthood ban, resulting in "missions with white faces"; the observation that the other churches largely made their original converts from native non-Christian populations, whereas Mormons often draw their converts from existing Christian communities.

Black Mormons became the first black woman to give a prayer at the Women's Meetings of General Conference in September 2014.