Posts tagged Jerry Mitchell
Watchdogs and racing against time
Watchdogs and racing against time

CLINTON, Miss. – Reading bookends my days. I start the morning with newspapers, including this one (News Journal), and turn in for the night with a book.

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PerspectiveJerry MitchellEmmett Till, FBI, Emmett Till killing, killers, Mississippi, civil rights movement, Race against time, Jerry Mitchell, Investigative Reporting, investigative journalism, Medgar Evers, Dahmer, Mary Thomas Watts, book, true crime, Clinton county reads, reporter, reopen civil rights cases
Missing the 2021 Mississippi Book Festival? Try Visiting the Home of Jackson's Most Famous Writer
Missing the 2021 Mississippi Book Festival? Try Visiting the Home of Jackson's Most Famous Writer

Eudora Welty, supreme 20th-century master of the short story, author of novels and essays, and winner of a Pulitzer Prize, spent almost all of her writing life in her family home in Jackson’s Belhaven neighborhood.

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Story Behind The Story, PerspectiveKatherine MitchellEudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize, Belhaven University, Curtis Wilkie, Mississippi book festivel, Jerry Mitchell
MCIR LIVE Explores 1963 Bombing in Birmingham: ‘It Is Never Too Late for a Man To Be Held Accountable For His Crimes.’
MCIR LIVE Explores 1963 Bombing in Birmingham: ‘It Is Never Too Late for a Man To Be Held Accountable For His Crimes.’

Four people who contributed to a major chapter in civil rights history joined MCIR founder Jerry Mitchell last week to talk about justice achieved after almost 40 years.

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Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellMCIR Live, Birmingham Church Bombing, KKK, four little girls, Sen. Doug Jones, Lisa McNair, Andy Sheldon, Bill Baxley, Jerry Mitchell, civil rights movement