President David O. McKay reports that he gave Elder Ezra Taft Benson his consent to speak about civil rights at General Conference.
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- Personal Journal / Diary
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Harvard S. Heath, ed. Confidence Amid Change: The Presidential Diaries of David O. McKay, 1951–1970 (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2019), 707
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- Signature Books
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- Reading Public
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September 22, 1967, 11:45 a.m. Elder Ezra Taft Benson came over to the office and interrupted the meeting long enough to discuss with me the subject of the address he would like to give at the General Conference. He briefly talked about the plight of the Negroes in this Civil Rights Issue, and how the Communists are using the Negroes to further their own schemes to foment trouble in the United States. He said that he would tlak on this subject from the viewpoint of bringing peace in our country instead of uprisings of the Negroes in riots, etc.
I told Brother Benson that under these circumstances, he may go ahead with his subject.
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