Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens The Unsolved Murder Cases Of The Civil Rights Era

"I’m a longtime fan of Mississippi investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell, and his memoir doesn’t disappoint. It’s a page-turner that reads like a mystery novel. But it’s frighteningly real – chronicling reporting that ultimately resulted in justice for some of the most notorious murders carried out by the Ku Klux Klan. Mitchell takes readers inside the investigations and prosecutions that, decades later, held Klansmen to account for killing civil rights leaders and workers in Mississippi, and four Black girls in a Birmingham church. I covered most of these trials for NPR, and Jerry’s memoir re-creates those historic events in riveting detail."