Race Against Time

Race Against Time follows journalist Jerry Mitchell's real investigations into cold cases from the civil rights movement: the assassination of Medgar Evers, the firebombing of Vernon Dahmer, the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, and the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers by Klansmen in Mississippi. Mitchell details how he tracked down buried documents, forgotten witnesses, and long-untouchable suspects, building the evidence that finally led to convictions decades after the crimes.

Told as a first-person investigative narrative, the book traces how one reporter's persistence helped reopen cases the justice system had left for dead.