Devery S. Anderson

Devery S. Anderson earned degrees from the University of Utah and George Washington University. He has written two books on racial history: Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement (2015), and A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard (2023), both from the University Press of Mississippi. He is also co-editor with Gary James Bergera of Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed, 1842-1845 and The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History, recipients of the Mormon History Association's Best Documentary History award in 2006. He is also editor of The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, and The Salt Lake School of the Prophets, 1867-1883.