‘The Mormons Help “God” Keep Negroes Out of “Heaven”’ by William Pickens from The Daily Worker. Vol. 5 No. 53. March 3, 1928

‘The Mormons Help “God” Keep Negroes Out of “Heaven”’ by William Pickens from The Daily Worker. Vol. 5 No. 53. March 3, 1928

A colonial fantasy. In addition to being a giant money-making machine, Mormonism is quintessentially the reactionary religion of the settler colonial, and as such has been, with exceptions, a pillar of all retrograde movements. Field Secretary for the N.A.A.C.P., close associate for decades of Du Bois, and long-time fellow-traveler, William Pickens investigates the scriptural reasons…