What a joy to spend time with Myrlie Evers on her 90th birthday! She is such an inspiration to every one of us. Please join me in wishing her the best now that she has turned 90, and I will pass your wishes on to her.
Jerry Mitchell
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Jerry Mitchell
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Leading investigative reporting team at Mississippi Today. Stories helped put 4 KKK members & serial killer behind bars. Author, Race Against Time.
- #OnThisDay in 1970, Mississippi law enforcement officers opened fire on the Jackson State University campus, killing two Black students, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green. Police insisted the students fired first, but no evidence was found to confirm this. The
- Between vacation photos and cookout invitations posted on their private text thread, a group of Mississippi sheriff’s deputies who called themselves the Goon Squad traded pictures of rotting corpses and joked about rape and shocking people with Tasers. They did it all in front
- 60 years ago today, Mississippi @NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers, a #WW2 veteran who fought in Normandy, was murdered outside his home in Jackson. His case was reopened in 1989, & his assassin finally convicted 5 years later. #history mississippitoday.org/2023/06/12/on-…
- To Kill a Mockingbird: The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one that makes you think. #SaturdayMorning
- Replying to @KeneAkersThe end of my encounter with Byron De La Beckwith when I interviewed him in April 1990, eight months before he was indicted again for Medgar Evers' murder. From "Race Against Time" ...
- 60 years ago today, Fannie Lou Hamer drew national attention when she testified before the Democratic National Convention’s credentials committee, challenging Mississippi’s all-white delegation. She detailed violence against Black Americans in Mississippi, including her own
- #OnThisDay in 1961, nine Black students from Tougaloo College entered the all-white Jackson Municipal Library and sat down. Police arrived and ordered them to go to the “colored” library, but when they refused, police arrested them. On the day of their trial, Jackson State
- Remembering Medgar Evers on the 57th anniversary of his assassination in Jackson, Mississippi ... "Freedom has never been free ..."
- #HappyBirthday James Meredith, who is 90 today! On this same day, in 1962, an appeals court ordered his admission as the 1st known Black student to the University of Mississippi. #history mississippitoday.org/2023/06/25/on-…
- #OnThisDay in 1961, after several Black players on the Boston Celtics were refused service at a coffee shop in Lexington, Kentucky, where they were scheduled to play the St. Louis Hawks, the Celtics’ five Black players — Bill Russell, Sam Jones, Satch Sanders, K.C. Jones and Al
- Emmett Till historical sign riddled with bullets. Another spray-painted "KKK." clarionledger.com/story/news/loc…
- Remembering Medgar Evers and his courage on the day that his family will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor. mississippitoday.org/2024/05/03/med…
- World War II veteran Medgar Evers, whom President Trump called “a great American hero,” has been erased from the Arlington National Cemetery website, which featured a section honoring Black Americans who fought in the nation’s wars. The U.S. Army purged the section that had
