Green Flake

"Green" Flake  became one of the first African-American members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and was one of the first of three African-Americans to enter the Salt Lake Valley on July 22, 1847. Green Flake was born a slave on the Jordan Flake Plantation in Madsburr, Anson County, North Carolina on January 6, 1828. At the age of ten, Green was given to … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Blacks and the Mormon Church