Today in Mormon History - Dec 21

[President Heber J. Grant Diary] At 1 o'clock this morning Afton Young died....

(1)
-- 70 years ago today - Dec 21, 1941

The following is a report of the meeting of the First Presidency and the Council of Twelve Apostles held this morning as usual:

Those present: Pres[iden]ts. Joseph F. Smith, Charles W. Penrose and Francis M. Lyman, Elders Hyrum M. Smith, George F. Richards, Orson F. Whitney, David O. McKay, Anthony W. Ivins, Joseph F[ielding]. Smith Jr. and James E. Talmage. ... (2)
-- 100 years ago today - Dec 21, 1911; Thursday

[Bibliography on the Negro Doctrine] Lythgoe, Dennis L. "Negro Slavery in Utah." Utah Historical Quarterly 39 (Winter 1971): 40-54. (3)
-- 40 years ago today - Winter 1971


1 - Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
2 - First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes
3 - Neither White nor Black: Mormon Scholars Confront the Race Issue in a Universal Church: Chronological Bibliography on the Negro Doctrine [1900-1983], Edited by Lester E. Bush, Jr., and Armand L. Mauss, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies

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