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‘Mormon Land’: LDS writer discusses his landmark book on Emmett Till and his faith’s racial history

Devery Anderson’s landmark biography is brought to TV in new “Women of the Movement” miniseries.

(Robert A. Davis/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File) This May 4, 2005, photo shows Emmett Till's photo on his grave marker in Alsip, Ill. Utah Latter-day Saint Devery Anderson wrote a groundbreaking biography of Till, whose killing in 1955 helped spur the civil rights movement.