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.
Read more about Florence Mars: Civil Rights Activities, Witness in Philadelphia
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“Human beings will be happier—not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)