Leonard J. Arrington reports that Harold B. Lee fasted and prayed intently for guidance about the priesthood ban.
Leonard J. Arrington, Adventures of a Church Historian (Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 180
Harold B. Lee, shortly before his death, spent three days and nights fasting in the upper room of the temple, praying earnestly to the Lord for guidance on this matter, but the only answer he received was "not yet."