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Clarion 1998. he first appeared in court in a wheel church is bombed and four young girls are chair and breathing with the aid of an oxy - Ledger was the guest author at Novel killed. Bookstore in memphis, tenn. on February gen tank. at Novel Bookstore, mitchell imagine receiving death threats to you imitated how Nix spoke to the judge about 12, 2020. he also toured other mid-south and your family for registering people to bookstores in Jackson, oxford, green - his health problems and persuaded the vote. You try to be vigilant in protecting judge to waive his bond. But when wood, and tupelo, miss. in February. his your home and family, but one night your 30-year career as an investigative reporter mitchell heard that Nix planned to play home is attacked by people firing bullets golf at a local club, mitchell arranged to for the newspaper included investigations into your home and gasoline jugs being of some of the most notorious “cold cases” have the golf outing photographed and the thrown in the windows so that soon your photos ran in the Clarion-Ledger . the of the Civil rights era. mitchell talked whole house erupts in fire. You (and your about his book, Race Against Time (2020), judge ordered Nix jailed. family) manage to barely escape, but you another humorous incident takes the and told some fascinating stories about the are so severely burned that you die the people he interviewed and the events that reader inside the courtroom, where 80- next day, and your entire home has been year-old attorney lawrence arrington, unfolded in his investigations. destroyed. it is said that today’s news becomes to - who had represented Deavours Nix in the Now imagine that none of the people 1960s, is representing him again in the morrow’s history, but it’s also true that Book cover shows the burned out sta - responsible for these crimes were ever 1998 trial. “Before Deavours Nix took the yesterday’s history can re-emerge into tion wagon driven by slain civil rights brought to trial or convicted of the crimes. witness stand, i overheard him talking to today’s news. it wasn’t called domestic workers James Chaney, Andrew Good - this is where Jerry mitchell comes on his lawyer, lawrence arrington. arrington terrorism then, but in the 1960s Civil man, and Michael Schwerner. the scene. Back in 1989, when he was a advised him that he would signal him with rights era, people who worked for the court reporter for the Clarion Ledger , see - (photo: FBI archives ) right to vote, the right to be served at a raised hand if Nix needed to claim his ing the film “mississippi Burning” in - Fifth amendment rights against self-in - restaurants, the right to ride in the seat of cases. spired him to investigate several civil crimination. Nix began testifying, and sev - their choice in public transit, and other many of the accounts in his book are rights cold cases. his book, Race Against eral minutes later, i glanced back at forms of social change were victims of depressing, as well as frustrating. But Time , takes readers through his investiga - arrington, who was fast asleep. so much beatings, murder, assassination, fire- mitchell reveals the perspectives of those tions of four infamous cold cases that led for the signaling.” (p.209) bombing, and other forms of domestic ter - he interviewed and combines his harrow - to their reopening and the prosecution of one of the interesting sources of infor - rorism. mitchell noted, “the hate that ing experiences with some humorous in - those responsible for these crimes: the as - mation was the records kept by the mis - caused such destruction has not gone cidents that happened in the course of his sassination of medgar evers; the fire - sissippi sovereignty Commission, a away,” and cited several instances of mod - investigations and subsequent trials. bombing of vernon Dahmer; the bombing government organization with a spy arm. ern “hate crimes,” which have been seen mitchell is such a good story teller that he of the sixteenth street Baptist Church in “every major official in mississippi was a at church and synagogue shootings, and will hook you into the book and not let go. Birmingham, alabama; and the murders of part of the sovereignty Commission,” even running over with a car, and killing, he painstakingly reveals the difficulties of three civil rights workers: michael schw - mitchell said. the files had been sealed, a demonstrator in Charlottesville, virginia. trying to locate information, find wit - erner, James Chaney, and andrew good - but mitchell was able to develop sources imagine your husband or father driving nesses, interview people about the cases, man. his investigations uncovered who had access to these secret files and home as usual one evening, pulling into and scan scores of case-related documents, sufficient evidence to prosecute Byron De they would leak information to him. the driveway and getting out of his car. which keep the reader glued to the book la Beckwith (medgar evers), kkk im - one theme that mitchell promotes from But before he can make it into his home, wanting to find out what happens next. perial Wizard sam Bowers (vernon Dah - this book is the idea of living fearlessly, he is gunned down in the driveway. “sometimes the biggest breaks come from mer), Bobby Cherry (Birmingham not meaning living without fear, but mean - imagine taking a summer off from col - the lease likely places,” mitchell wrote church), and edgar ray killen (schw - ing living for something greater than our - lege to do some social service work help - about finding the sovereignty Commis - erner, Chaney and goodman).