My anti-racism novel Mississippi Reckoning

An opportunity to learn about the realities of white supremacy in the South of the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s while reading a “riveting”*, “enthralling,”** “revelatory”*** thriller.

Give the novel to someone who won’t read a history book or treatise about racism, but is up for a “gripping and harrowing” thriller that “punches the reader in the gut” (Los Angeles Review of Books).

Mississippi Reckoning — praised by civil rights veterans, historians and reviewers — employs the road trip / vengeance / suspense novel as a vehicle to recount tales of the civil rights movement and of the naked violence America’s apartheid system rested on.

To learn more about the book or read an excerpt, click here

* Pulitzer-prize winning historian Eric Foner (“riveting”). ** Civil rights leader/SNCC founder Diane Nash (“enthralling”). *** Los Angeles Review of Books (“revelatory”).

“Linking the story of a condemned man in present-day California with the story of deep-southern horror from which that man emerged, Mitchell Zimmerman has crafted a heart-pounding, soul-wrenching narrative.”
–Federal Judge and civil rights pioneer Thelton Henderson

“Family saga, freedom song and cry for justice come together in Mississippi Reckoning, as a despairing man seeks vengeance for wrongs beyond his power to right.”
–Diane Nash, legendary civil rights leader