How the wife of Mormonism’s most-famous black man played a part in the priesthood-temple ban that would last a century

(Tribune file photo) Early Latter-day Saint black convert Elijah Able, sometimes spelled Abel.

(Tribune file photo) Early Latter-day Saint black convert Elijah Able, sometimes spelled Abel.

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