Timeline of Black LDS history

See also: Black Mormons and Black people and Mormonism

This is a timeline of Black people and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and the views of top LDS leaders around Black people. The history of Black people in the LDS Church has been characterized by periods of changing policies and teachings around skin color, Black enslavement, and temple and priesthood eligibility. A racial restriction on temple and priesthood ordinances for Black people was removed in 1978. What began during Mormonism founder Joseph Smith's lifetime as an estimated 100 free and enslaved Black Mormons, has grown to an estimated 400,000 to one million Black LDS Church adherents worldwide as of 2019.


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