Reporter plans to rap about his investigations of unsolved civil rights murders, tomorrow

Reporter Jerry Mitchell, who spent years investigating the most infamous murders of the civil rights movement, plans to speak about his book, "Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era," at a National Press Club Headliners Book Rap Breakfast on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at 8:30 a.m. in the Zenger Room

Tickets cost $5 for Club members and $10 for the general public and can be purchased online.

Preordered books will be available for pickup and signing at the event. Books may also be purchased at the door. Please leave all outside books at home.

The Book Rap features a moderated discussion with the author, an audience question-and-answer session, and a book signing. Doors open at 8 a.m. with a breakfast of coffee, tea, muffins and pastries.

Race Against Time chronicles Mitchell’s quest to unearth the truth behind some of the most gruesome and harrowing unsolved murders of the civil rights era. Mitchell’s reporting is credited with helping to bring killers to justice for the assassination of Medgar Evers, the firebombing of Vernon Dahmer, the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and the murder of three civil rights workers in a case commonly referred to as the Mississippi Burning.