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On a totally different note, one of my heroes just received a Genius grant!
http://news.aol.com/philanthropy/article/jerry-mitchell-elyn-sak-snag-genius/680206
From an email I got from Sojourn to the Past:
The MacArthur Fellowship (nicknamed the Genius Award) is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to typically 20 to 40 individuals who "show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work."
The Fellowship doesn't have an application. An anonymous body of nominators recommend people to an anonymous selection committee. The committee then reviews every nominee and passes along their recommendations to the President and the board of directors. Most new MacArthur Fellows first learn that they have even been considered when they receive the congratulatory phone call.
Sojourn to the Past Founder and friend of Jerry Mitchell, Jeff Steinberg, refers to Mitchell as "the leading Civil Rights reporter in the country". Myrlie Evers-Williams acknowledges that the 1994 conviction of Medgar Evers' killer, Byron De La Beckwith, would never have happened without Mitchell.
On the ten-day Sojourn journey participants meet Jerry Mitchell, an investigative reporter with the Clarion-Ledger, in Jackson, Mississippi and hear first-hand of his courageous efforts that have led to finally prosecuting many of the unpunished, cold case murders from the Civil Rights Era. In addition to the Evers case, Mitchell has played a key role in the convictions of Klan Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers for ordering the fatal firebombing of NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer in 1966, of Bobby Cherry for the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church that killed four girls, and of Edgar Ray Killen for helping to orchestrate the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
With the grant, Mitchell plans to continue his work on unsolved Civil Rights era crimes and complete a book.
I am so incredibly happy he has finally received some recognition for all his incredible work.
Jerry Mitchell is an amazing person that I am very glad to have met on Sojourn to the Past - his words of wisdom really had an impact on me and my own ambitions to become a journalist.
http://news.aol.com/philanthropy/article/jerry-mitchell-elyn-sak-snag-genius/680206
From an email I got from Sojourn to the Past:
The MacArthur Fellowship (nicknamed the Genius Award) is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to typically 20 to 40 individuals who "show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work."
The Fellowship doesn't have an application. An anonymous body of nominators recommend people to an anonymous selection committee. The committee then reviews every nominee and passes along their recommendations to the President and the board of directors. Most new MacArthur Fellows first learn that they have even been considered when they receive the congratulatory phone call.
Sojourn to the Past Founder and friend of Jerry Mitchell, Jeff Steinberg, refers to Mitchell as "the leading Civil Rights reporter in the country". Myrlie Evers-Williams acknowledges that the 1994 conviction of Medgar Evers' killer, Byron De La Beckwith, would never have happened without Mitchell.
On the ten-day Sojourn journey participants meet Jerry Mitchell, an investigative reporter with the Clarion-Ledger, in Jackson, Mississippi and hear first-hand of his courageous efforts that have led to finally prosecuting many of the unpunished, cold case murders from the Civil Rights Era. In addition to the Evers case, Mitchell has played a key role in the convictions of Klan Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers for ordering the fatal firebombing of NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer in 1966, of Bobby Cherry for the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church that killed four girls, and of Edgar Ray Killen for helping to orchestrate the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi.
With the grant, Mitchell plans to continue his work on unsolved Civil Rights era crimes and complete a book.
I am so incredibly happy he has finally received some recognition for all his incredible work.
Jerry Mitchell is an amazing person that I am very glad to have met on Sojourn to the Past - his words of wisdom really had an impact on me and my own ambitions to become a journalist.