Florence Latimer Mars Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Florence Mars (January 1, 1923–April 23, 2006) was a civil rights activist and author best known for her book Witness in Philadelphia about the murder of three civil rights activists in the U.S. state of Mississippi.
Less than 24 hours after I testified before a grand jury investigating those murders, the Klan initiated a campaign to 'ruin' me, a WASP lady with eight great-grandparents buried in Neshoba County.
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Author of "Witness in Philadelphia", a book about the effects of the 1964 killings of the civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Earl Chaney.
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Her book "Witness in Philadelphia" which recounted the death of three workers trying to register black voters in Mississippi during the 1960s was the inspiration for the film "Mississippi Burning"
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