Mars, Florence, 1923-2006
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- Her Witness in Philadelphia, 1989, c1977:t.p. (Florence Mars) p. 9 (b. 1923)
- LC in OCLC, 6-2-89(hdg.: Mars, Florence, 1923- )
- New York times WWW site, May 1, 2006(in obituary published Apr. 29: Florence Latimer Mars; b. Jan. 1, 1923; d. Sunday [Apr. 23, 2006], Philadelphia, Miss., aged 83; defied the society into which she was born to write a searing book about the effects of the 1964 killings of the civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Earl Chaney on her hometown)
Wikipedia description:
Florence Mars (January 1, 1923 – April 23, 2006) was an American civil rights activist and author best known for her book Witness in Philadelphia about the murder of three civil rights activists in Mississippi.
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