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"In 2004, I visited Florence Mars at her home in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the town in which my older brother Andrew and his comrades James Chaney and Michael Schwerner were murdered by Ku Klux Klansmen forty years before. Burdened by disease, she struggled to speak clearly, yet her courage and commitment to the self-evident truth that all people are created equal were undimmed. In these photographs, most taken in the decade between 1954 and 1964, she captures both the horror and the haunting beauty of rural Mississippi in the last days of legal segregation.--David Goodman, president of The Andrew Goodman Foundation Ultimately, [her photographs] represented one of her greatest achievements, offering a candid insider's take on life in the waning years of the Jim Crow South that alters our perceptions about racism and segregation.--Maurice Berger ""The New York Times"" Mississippi Witness is a riveting collection of photographs taken by my good friend Florence Mars. Through Flossy's unique lens, she captured powerful images of the civil rights movement. She was a wonderful, heroic figure, and I am thrilled that this book has been published to finally share her amazing story with the world. Flossy was able to use her camera to collect and express emotions which were not easily translatable. Quite simply, her pictures spoke volumes. This book is an important volume on this period of our nation's history.--William F. Winter, former governor of Mississippi Mississippi Witness: The Photographs of Florence Mars is an amazing gift of rarely seen images--rich, haunting, and complex--that capture the tenor and the tint of Philadelphia, Mississippi, in the early years of the civil rights era. Florence Mars's beautiful and startling photographs capture the daily rhythms of Neshoba County, Mississippi, at a time of transformation and racial struggle. Thanks to the work of Campbell and Owens, we have access to work that enriches, surprises, humanizes, confounds, clarifies, and enhances the visual history of a region in the throes of change. This is an important and needed publication.--Lonnie G. Bunch, founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture and coauthor of Memories of the Enslaved: Voices from the Slave Narratives In a striking compendium of images, text, and scholarly research, Mississippi Witness quietly and beautifully captures what Mars saw. This book will interest students and scholars, photographers and activists, and all those who are committed to tracing the arc of American social justice.--Laura Wexler, professor at Yale University and author of Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism and ""A More Perfect Likeness"" Frederick Douglass and the Image of the Nation"

Ultimately, [her photographs] represented one of her greatest achievements, offering a candid insider's take on life in the waning years of the Jim Crow South that alters our perceptions about racism and segregation.--Maurice Berger The New York Times

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James T. Campbell, Stanford, California, is Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History at Stanford University. His previous books include Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005. Elaine Owens, Brandon, Mississippi, recently retired as director of the image/sound archives at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, where she helped to collect and curate the Florence Mars Collection.

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