“C” for Cain, “N” for Negro, or similar, a practice that persisted into the 1970s.31 In the 1950s, high-ranking LDS Church leaders Mark E. Petersen and Bruce R. McConkie delivered remarks and published as authoritative “doctrine” anti-Black speculative theology supporting segregation, opposing interracial marriage, and claiming that African Americans were cursed by God and that white supremacy was God’s will. Their words were, in Petersen’s case, circulated in typescript among Brigham Young University religion faculty through the 1960s, and in McConkie’s case remained in print with only minor
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