![]() Mitchell: In terms of getting attention for lesser known victims, it has been difficult. Have you found it more difficult to get readers at large - or the media - to pay attention to the cases that had less well-known victims? Tell us about the differences -if there are any - between investigating and writing about the two kinds of cases. Iles: You’ve worked some very high-profile civil rights murder cases, but also other killings of what Southerners call “regular black folks,” people who had no history of activism but who nevertheless were targeted at random. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Race Against Time" chronicles very important work. I hope people isolating at home will check it out. Now, as a fellow author, I want to ask you some questions that might differ from the usual publicity type interviews we get from book critics and reporters. Iles: First, Jerry, let me say congratulations on your great book. You've always been a first-class writer, and "Race Against Time" is an important achievement. You’ve had some bad luck, timing-wise, with the COVID-19 outbreak occurring in the middle of your book’s publication. Novelist Greg Iles ("Cemetery Road" "Natchez Burning") takes a break from his quarantine writing to interview Jerry Mitchell, a former longtime investigative reporter for The Clarion Ledger whose pursuit of unpunished killings is featured in his new book, "Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era,” (Simon and Schuster). ![]()
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