Florence Mars, whose family go back four generations in Neshoba County, braved social ostracism and threats of violence to denounce the murders of the three Civil Rights workers-Schwerner, Goodman and Cheney—through then lens of her camera. She bought a camera and built a dark room and began to photograph and document a racial order she knew was dying.
James Campbell is the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U. S. History at Stanford University. Elaine Owens is the retired director of image/sound archives at the Miss. Dept. of Archives and History where she helped collect and curate the Florence Mars Collection.
