Start here
19 episodes is a lot. This is the short version of where to begin.
If you only listen to one episode
Start with 1“Not One-Drop” of African Blood Rule, on the “not one drop” rule, where Matt Harris lays out what the ban was, where it came from, and why it lasted until 1978.
Listen in order
The series follows the history chronologically over eighteen episodes. The episodes page lists them from 1“Not One-Drop” of African Blood Rule to 18Mormon Prophets’ Push to Erase Racist Past, with the Mormon Stories catalogue number on each in case you already know one from the main feed.
The book
Every episode draws on Harris’s Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Oxford University Press, 2024), the first history of the ban written with access to the private papers of the apostles who debated it.