Contributors

ALAN J. CLARK holds a doctorate degree from the department of religion at Claremont Graduate University, with emphases in North American religious history, global Pentecostalism, and the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He received his BA from Arizona State University and his MA from Brigham Young University. His interests include religion in the Intermountain West, Pentecostalism, and Latter-day Saint history in the Progressive Era.

HENRY MCALLISTER JR. is currently retired from Hill Air Force Base, where he had been employed for nearly forty three years. Pastor McAllister accepted his call into the Gospel ministry in 1985. The following year he became a licensed a minister in the Church of God in Christ by the late Superintendent David Griffin, and he was ordained an Elder. In 1996 he was appointed Pastor of the Finley Temple (Journey of New Beginnings) Church of God in Christ. He earned a BS degree in Accounting and Business Administration from the University of Arkansas in 1977 and was selected to the “Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities” that same year.

BRANDON PLEWE is an associate professor of Geography at Brigham Young University, where he teaches geographic information systems (GIS) and cartography, and studies historical GIS, historical cartography, and geographical information theory. He was the senior editor of the award-winning 2012 Mapping Mormonism: An Atlas of Latter-day Saint History. TONYA REITER is an independent historian working in Salt Lake City. Her work has been published in the Journal of Mormon History and previously in Utah Historical Quarterly. She received the Dale L. Morgan Award in 2018. She contributes to the Century of Black Mormons website as a researcher and as a member of the advisory board.

JOHN SILLITO, Emeritus Professor at Weber State University, is the author of B. H. Roberts: A Life in the Public Arena and, with John S. McCormick, A History of Utah Radicalism: Startling, Socialistic and Decidedly Revolutionary, which received the Utah State Historical Society’s award for Best Book in Utah History in 2011. He is currently researching the Utah Left from the Great Depression to the rise of McCarthyism.

GRACE SOELBERG is a recent graduate from Brigham Young University. She majored in history with an emphasis on twentieth-century US History. She was one of the first students to work with the BYU Slavery Project and through her research discovered the identity of BYU’s first Black graduate, Dr. Norman Wilson.

GARY TOPPING is a retired historian and archivist living in Salt Lake City. He is an Honorary Lifetime Member and Fellow of the Utah State Historical Society. His writings include Glen Canyon and the San Juan Country and Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History.