"From Selma to Sorrow"

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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the book "From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo" by Mary Stanton. Specifically, the paper discusses the author's approach to writing this book and how just about all of the the major issues that American faced in the 1960s are reflected in it.

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"Author Stanton takes present time and the past and weaves them together to form the backdrop of this book. The sad thing is, sometimes the past and the present seem to blend together and get hazy. It seems that is the South, a lot of the prejudice and hatred is still there, it just does not make the headlines anymore. For example, the author writes about the marker on the road where Liuzzo was murdered. She says a Montgomery social worker tells her, "'Their third try I believe [to erect a marker]. The markers keep getting knocked over. The first one was smashed up with a sledge hammer'" (Stanton 21). The social worker is not speaking in 1965, but in 1994. The author shows that time stands still in areas of the South, and that some hatreds take a long time to die. As another interviewee in the book notes, "'The South is a peculiar place'" (Stanton 22)."

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