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Lester Earl Bush Jr. (November 22, 1942-November 23, 2023 ) was a historian and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS Church) who published influential research into the origins of the "Negro doctrine," a now-abandoned church policy which excluded African-Americans from membership in the church's priesthood and from ...
Nov 23, 2023 · Pioneering Mormon Studies scholar Lester Bush passed away November 23, 2023. Condolences to his friends and family from all of us at Dialogue. He will be greatly missed. Please see his author page for a list of his important, impactful scholarly works at Dialogue.
Negroes of African descent presently are denied ordination to the priesthood in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the following article Lester E. Bush, Jr. discusses the genesis and development of that practice within the Restored Church through an examination of historical materials.
Oct 1, 2018 · LESTER E. BUSH, JR. {lesterbush@cs.com} is a physician living in Maryland. Formerly an associate editor of Dialogue, he has published two books and many articles on Mormon history, and twice won the annual MHA Best Article Award, and once the MHA Best First Book Award.
View PDF. 2018: Lester Bush, “ Looking Back, Looking Forward: “Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine” 45 Years Later” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol 51 No. 3 (2018):1–28. It has been forty-five years since Dialogue published Bush’s essay entitled “Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine: An Historical Overview”2 and forty years since ...
Lester Earl Bush Jr. was a historian and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who published influential research into the origins of the "Negro doctrine," a now-abandoned church policy which excluded African-Americans from membership in the church's priesthood and from participation in a number of other church practices.
The Lester E. Bush papers (1809-1999) contain correspondence, articles, bibliographies, research materials, editor materials for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, surveys, textual excerpts, references, subject files, notes, theses transcripts, and pamphlets.
