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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 ...
- November 22, 1942, Atlanta, Georgia
- American
- Research into the origins of the "Negro doctrine" in the LDS Church
- Historian, Physician
23 nov 2023 · November 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.
2 gen 2024 · Lester E. Bush, Jr., MD. Class Year. 1968. Affiliation. Alumni. Posted on: January 2, 2024. Lester Earl Bush, Jr. passed away November 23, 2023, with his wife of 56 years, Yvonne, by his side. Lester was born on November 22, 1942 in Atlanta, Ga., to Lester Earl Bush Sr. and Edna Karston Bush.
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The uncertainty which followed the martyrdom of Joseph Smith was not fully resolved for many months, and most of the efforts of the Church during this time were directed at self-preservation. Among the early changes to emerge, one of the most dramatic involved Mormon attitudes towards blacks and slavery. Joseph Smith’s anti-slavery sentiment persis...
When John Taylor assumed the leadership of the Church there was no real question as to the basic Mormon policy towards Negroes. Brigham Young had made it quite clear that blacks, as descendants of Cain, were not entitled to the priesthood. It shortly became apparent, however, that all the related questions had not been resolved. In fact, decisions ...
No major changes in Church Negro policy were evident during the second quarter of the twentieth century. Both Heber J. Grant, and his successor, George Albert Smith, continued to base the priesthood restriction ultimately on the curse on Cain, and both cited the Pearl of Great Price as concrete evidence of the divine origin of this practice.There w...
Mormon attitudes towards blacks have thus followed an unexpectedly complex evolutionary pattern. When first apparent, these beliefs were sustained by the widely accepted connection of the Negro with Ham and Cain, the acknowledged intellectual and social inferiority of the Negro, his black skin, and the strength of Brigham Young’s testimony and/or o...
1 ott 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.
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 pa...
1 ott 2016 · LESTER E. BUSH, JR is a physician with an MD from the University of Virginia, and a Master’s of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. He has a long-standing interest in Mormon history and has published one book on the subject, co-edited another, and published about twenty articles that appeared in Dialogue, the Journal of ...
