First president of the Genesis Group
Ruffin Bridgeforth Jr.
1923–1997
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Race and the Priesthood
First president of the Genesis Group
With Darius Gray and Eugene Orr, Bridgeforth asked the Twelve in 1971 for a branch where Black members could gather. What they got instead was the Genesis Group, organized 19 October 1971 under Liberty Stake, with Bridgeforth as president — a leader who could not hold the priesthood he was asked to preside without. He was ordained in June 1978 and later made a high priest.
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The Genesis Group is organized
Ruffin Bridgeforth, Darius Gray and Eugene Orr had asked the Twelve for a branch for Black members. They were given an auxiliary group under Liberty Stake instead. Gordon B. Hinckley, Thomas S. Monson and Boyd K. Packer set apart Bridgeforth as president with Gray and Orr as counselors — none of whom could hold the priesthood. Packer counselled them to keep a low profile.
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