Southern States Mission President John Morgan implicitly endorsed lynching during a sermon at the Church’s main Assembly Hall on Temple Square on December 18, 1881, when he recounted witnessing an African American woman taking her purchased seat in a first-class train car in Nashville, Tennessee, displacing him and other white passengers to the second-class smoking car. Morgan described the woman’s conduct as “impudence” and proudly recalled that he had remarked to the railroad car “manager” that had an African American man attempted the same twenty-five years earlier “you would have hung him
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