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Race against time : a reporter reopens the unsolved murder cases of the civil rights era
Title:
Race against time : a reporter reopens the unsolved murder cases of the civil rights era
Author:
Mitchell, Jerry, author.
Published:
2020
Format:
Books
Personal Author:
Mitchell, Jerry, author.
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Description:
421 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:
"An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases--decades after they had gotten away with murder"--
Contents:
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner -- Medgar Evers -- Vernon Dahmer Sr. -- Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley -- James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner.
Abstract:
"An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases--decades after they had gotten away with murder"-- Provided by publisher.
Personal Subject:
Mitchell, Jerry.
Corporate Subject:
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Subject Term:
Journalists -- Mississippi -- Biography.

Investigative reporting -- Southern States.

Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Southern States.

Murder -- Southern States.

Civil rights movements -- Southern States.

Civil rights workers -- Southern States.
ISBN:
9781451645132

9781451645149
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