On June 21, 1964, three young civil rights workers?James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner?were murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Florence Mars, a native of Philadelphia, recounts the grim circumstances of the killings and describes what happened to a community confronted by a challenge to long-held beliefs.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
LSU Press
ISBN-10
0807115665
ISBN-13
9780807115664
eBay Product ID (ePID)
731143
Product Key Features
Book Title
Witness in Philadelphia
Author
Florence Mars
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
1989
Genre
True Crime, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Reviews
[Florence Mars] spoke out at a time, when it was physically dangerous to do so, and she speaks out now to make a record before history. . . . [Witness in Philadelphia] should be in every school in the country, to teach young people what the unmasked face of bigotry looks like and about the quiet, difficult courage of ordinary people like Florence Mars., Witness in Philadelphia is a detailed, documented, yet personal account of the upheaval that shook Neshoba County, Mississippi, when the civil rights movement began to make itself felt in the 1960s., Florence Mars's moving account of how she stood against her town and the county in which eight of her great-grandparents were buried helps to explain why it was possible in the 1960s for the Old South to become the New South., Florence Mars is both a symbol and a living practitioner of the belief that people who are willing to challenge injustice can prevail.