![]() Justice delayed is still justice,” -U.S.Senator and lead prosecutor for the Birmingham church bombing case, Doug Jones “They say that justice delayed is justice denied. A nation that allows that to happen is not a decent nation.”-David Halberstam There’s something about a nation that allows that to happen. That’s about as un-American as you can get. “What cruelty there is to murder American kids, to murder them on American soil just because they want to register people to vote. His efforts have put four leading Klansmen behind bars, years after they thought they had gotten away with murder. His work played a central role in bringing killers to justice for the assassination of Medgar Evers, the firebombing of Vernon Dahmer, the 16th Street Church bombing in Birmingham and the Mississippi Burning case. In Race Against Time, Mitchell takes readers on the twisting, pulse-racing road that led to the reopening of four of the most infamous killings from the days of the civil rights movement, decades after the fact. If there is one man who helped pave the way for justice, it is investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell. It took forty-one years before the mastermind was brought to trial and finally convicted for the three innocent lives he took. ![]() The killings would become known as the “Mississippi Burning” case and even though the killers’ identities, including the sheriff’s deputy, were an open secret, no one was charged with murder in the months and years that followed. On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. ![]()
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