Brigham Young University publishes a full-page newspaper advertisement, "Minorities, Civil Rights, and BYU." This responds to the protests about the lack of African-Americans on BYU's athletic teams as an alleged extension of the LDS church's policy of withholding the priesthood from blacks. This athletic restriction ends with the priesthood restriction.
[The Mormon Hierarchy - Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn, [New Mormon History database ( http://bit.ly/NMHdatabase )]]
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