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Witness in Philadelphia, March 1989
Hardcover

WITNESS IN PHILADELPHIA
By: Florence Mars

Civil Rights Murders and the affect on the small town where they occurred.

Louisiana State University Press
March 1989
320 pages
ISBN: 0807115665
Hardcover
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Historical | Non-Fiction Biography

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.

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