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James Campbell Author Program

Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
Atlanta, GA

Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. EDT

The Photographs of Florence Mars." Though few remember today, Mars was also a photographer. Shocked by the ferocity of white Mississippians’ reaction to the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling against racial segregation, she bought a camera, built a homemade darkroom, and began to take pictures, determined to document a racial order she knew was dying. "Mississippi Witness" features over one hundred of these photographs, most taken in the decade between 1954 and 1964, almost all published here for the first time. While a few depict public events—Mars photographed the 1955 trial of the murderers of Emmett Till—most feature private moments, illuminating the separate and unequal worlds of black and white Mississippians in the final days of Jim Crow.

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