@mormonstoriespodcast: The Civil Rights movement was a movement for equal rights for African Americans and for an end to racial segregation and exclusion across the United States. In 1967, Mormon prophet, Ezra Taft Benson, said of the movement: “There is no doubt that the so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America…” #lds #mormon #byu #byui #byuh #thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints #civilrights #equalrights #ldstemple #ldsmissionary #exmo #exmormon #exlds #bookofmormon #generalconference