Southern Literary Studies: Witness in Philadelphia by Florence Mars (1989, Trade Paperback)

LSU Press

0807115665

9780807115664

731143

Witness in Philadelphia

Florence Mars

Trade Paperback

English

Murder / General, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

1989

True Crime, History, Social Science

296 Pages

8.5in

0.7in

5.5in

12.3 Oz

[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.

76-050660

Trade

Southern Literary Studies

Yes