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Author:

Mitchell, Jerry, author.

Title:

Race against time : a reporter reopens the unsolved murder cases of the civil rights era / Jerry Mitchell.

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

pages cm

Subject:

Mitchell, Jerry.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ).
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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1451645139
9781451645132

LCCN:

2019030562

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