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Jerry Mitchell - 64th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine
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A conversation with an investigative reporter on cold cases in the Civil Rights Movement.
In more than three decades as a reporter at the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi, stories from Jerry Mitchell helped put four Ku Klux Klan members and a suspected serial killer behind bars decades after they committed their crimes. His reporting has exposed killers who had long escaped prosecution, with authorities citing insufficient evidence, in cases including the killings of civil rights activists in the 1960s and the longest-delayed conviction in a serial killer case in U.S. history. His stories have also exposed corruption in state agencies and helped lead to the release of two prisoners from death row. In 2018, after 32 years at the Clarion-Ledger, Mitchell co-founded the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, where he now serves as director.
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