Mitchell profiled in Massachusetts paper
Clarion-Ledger investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell, fresh from being given the Lovejoy award at Colby College in Waterville, ME, is profiled in this Concord Monitor piece for his “18 years pursuing justice” in the Magnolia State.
Writes columnist Mike Pride: “(Mitchell’s) work has resulted in the jailing of four Ku Klux Klansmen who were involved in some of the most horrific killings of the Civil Rights era. The four are the assassin of Medgar Evers; the man who ordered the firebombing that killed Vernon Dahmer, a leader of the NAACP; one of the church bombers who killed four girls in Birmingham, Ala.; and a man involved in the killings of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner on the day after they arrived in Mississippi.