Voices Against Injustice Salem Award Ceremony

Please join us for light refreshments in East India Marine Hall at 6:30 pm along with a special viewing of the exhibitions Let None Be Excluded: The Origins of Equal School Rights in Salem. and the Towne Sisters Papers. The speaking program will begin at 7:30 pm followed by a reception in the Main Atrium with musical accompaniment by Wangari Fahari and viewing of the new installation On This Ground: Being and Belonging in America.

As a reporter for the Clarion-Ledger, Jerry Mitchell spent three decades investigating civil rights cases that had gone cold. In 2018, he founded the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, the mission of which is “to improve lives, bring reform, expose injustices, give a voice to the voiceless, shine the spotlight on fraud, corruption and wrongdoing, and highlight the unseen champions of what is right.” Mitchell is the author of Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the recipient of more than 20 national awards.

Please email Voices Against Injustice Co-Chair Fara Wolfson at voices1692@gmail.com with any questions.

We look forward to sharing this moment with you.