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Devery S. Anderson is a graduate of the University of Utah and is an editor at Signature Books in Salt Lake City. He has authored or coauthored several books on Mormon history, two of which won the Steven F. Christensen Award for Best Documentary from the Mormon History Association.
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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement (Race, Rhetoric, and Media… (2015) 38 Exemplare
Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed, 1842-1845: A Documentary History (2005) — Herausgeber — 26 Exemplare
The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History (2005) — Herausgeber — 19 Exemplare
A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard (Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series) (2023) 5 Exemplare
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 33, Number 2 (Summer 2000) (2000) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
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Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 41, Number 3 (Fall 2008) (2008) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 35, Number 2 (Summer 2002) (2002) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 32, Number 2 (Summer 1999) (1999) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 51, Number 3 (Fall 2018) (2018) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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- Anderson, Devery Scott
- Geburtstag
- 1960
- Geschlecht
- male
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- USA
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- Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Longview, Washington, USA - Ausbildung
- University of Utah (BA|History|1997)
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- editor
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- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Signature Books (ebook editor)
Sunstone Magazine (staff|symposium organizer)
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This is quite a comprehensive study of the subject. In particular, the author did a marvelous job of depicting the strong Jim Crow atmosphere of the Mississippi delta.
The fact that black men were depicted as depraved animals longing to violate white women was clearly outlined. While I find this thinking despicable, it was helpful in explaining the reason why two white red neck, vile, white men walked away free. With smiles on their faces, they left the court room smug in their victory.
Knowing that they could lie in the court room and have the backing of their lawyers who used the ugly sentiment at the time, allowed them to walk away freely.
If there is such a thing as pay back, both men had marriages that ended in divorce. And, while not particularly liked before their murder of Emmett Till, they were ostracized and not able to make a decent living.… (mehr)