Mississippi Witness
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Wednesday, Apr 24, 2019 7 p.m.
Location
Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
441 Freedom Pkwy
Details
Lecture/Booksigning
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public
Photographer Florence Mars was shocked by the ferocity of white Mississippians’ reaction to the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling against racial segregation so 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.
