Synopsis
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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Witness in Philadelphia
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Louisiana State University Press, 1977
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Witness in Philadelphia: A Mississippi WASP's Account of Civil Rights Murders
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WITNESS IN PHILADELPHIA
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Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Foreword by Turner Catledge. xx. Illustrated by photographs. End Notes. Index. 296pp. Red cloth boards with gilt title on spine.Library stamps on f. lining paper, top edge and removal scars on r. f.p. Dust Jacket wrinkled. Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # 000040
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WITNESS IN PHILADELPHIA
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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Foreword by Turner Catledge. Illustrated by photographs. xx. End Notes. Index. 296pp. Red cloth boards with gilt title on spine. Previous owner's name on f. lining paper. Author expresses her outrage as she witnessed the events surrounding the murder of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman on June 21, 1964 in Philadelphia, MS. Hardcover. Seller Inventory # 000039
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WITNESS IN PHILADELPHIA
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. various associated press photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition in a very good dustjacket. Voting rights in the South. The KKK and right wing traditional white folks revolt against the notion and the right of the Negro Vote!!! They respond with violence. In 1964, in Philadelphia, Mississippi, they murder three white Civil Rights Workers, trying to get the Black population registered to vote for the First time in Mississippi 1964.Written by a colleague of the murdered three who remembers vividly.Turner Catledge, former executive editor of "The New York Times", born and raised in Mississippi. clean sharp orange boards No names or unwanted marks Foxing around all outer edges. Non price clipped dustjacket couple of tiny. Seller Inventory # 943