169: Jerry Mitchell: Murder, Race, and Faith (Best of NSE)

In the 1990s, investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell started working on a handful of closed murder cases from the Civil Rights Era which he believed were never brought to justice. Since then, Jerry’s work has led to 24 convictions in Civil Rights murder cases.

In this episode, he tells some of the most jaw-dropping stories from his life’s work, from the discovery of sealed spy records which reveal government involvement in racial murder, to interviews with klansmen who made threats on his life.

“Them trying to threaten me really made me more determined to do it than ever,” he says. “A life of fear is not worth living.”

Show Notes

Resources mentioned this episode:

"Mississippi Burning" (1988)

"Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era"

Similar No Small Endeavor episodes:

Dr. Fred Gray: Doing Justice Alongside MLK and Rosa Parks

Eddie Glaude: On James Baldwin’s America

Robert Jones: White Too Long

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