... cut all extra circular activities with B.Y.U. "because of alleged racial discrimination by the Mormon Church"13. In1974 the NAACP filled a lawsuit with a Federal court against the Church in support of Byron Marchant, an African-American Mormon scoutmaster14. Mormon-sponsored Boy Scout troops required any senior patrol leaders to hold the title of priesthood, thus blacks were excluded. As a result to the ... ...

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