Race Against Time : A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era (Paperback)

from muddyboy

A book that is fifty years in the making. It chronicles four different crimes in Mississippi where for years the perpetrators got away Scot free including the assassination of Medgar Evers and the church bombings that killed four young Black girls who were in their Sunday school class. The thing ...

from larryerick

This is a book about the resolution of four significant civil rights era cold-case murders: (1) the 1963 murder of Mississippi's NAACP field secretary, Medgar Edgars, (2) the 1963 bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, (3) the 1964 Freedom Summer "Mississippi Burning" murde...

from froxgirl

In 1986, young reporter Jerry Mitchell had just started working at the Clarion-Ledger newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi. After watching the movie Mississippi Burning, about the 1964 Goodman-Schwerner-Chaney civil rights murders, he is astounded to discover that no one had ever been convicted of t...

from brangwinn

After the movie Mississippi Burning was released, Jerry Mitchell began a two-decade investigation into who killed the three Civil Rights workers. If you like John Grisham, you like this true-life accounting of what Mitchell went through to uncover the truth. He went up against strong segregation ...

from sallylou61

Mr. Mitchell went from being a court reporter to an investigative reporter specializing in unsolved murders of blacks in Mississippi and Alabama for The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS) after viewing the 1989 movie, Mississippi Burning, while sitting next to a retired FBI special agent who had been c...