BYU president Ernest L. Wilkinson reportedly requested a meeting with the First Presidency about Black students, but was told President McKay was too ill.
- Type
- Personal Journal / Diary
- Hearsay
- Direct
- Reference
Ernest L. Wilkinson, Ernest L. Wilkinson Personal Diaries, October 29, 1969, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, UA 1000, Box 103, Folder 3, accesed December 9, 2022
- Scribe/Publisher
- Harold B. Lee Library
- Audience
- Unknown
- Transcription
I left at 6:45 and got to President Tanner's office by 7:30, where I had a talk with him with respect to the Negro problem. Since we couldn't have a meeting of the Board of Trustees I wanted a meeting of the First Presidency but he said that President McKay's health did not permit such. I then sought out another person who is very close to President McKay and got a little different story of the condition of President McKay's health--in fact, this other person is meeting with President McKay tomorrow and he agreed to take up for me the Negro problem. Time only will tell me whether he does.
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