The Journal of Southern History, May 1st, 2002
From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo. By Mary Stanton. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 1998. Pp. xiv, 250. $24.95, ISBN 0-8203-2045-5.) On March 25, 1965, angry Klansmen murdered a Detroit housewife outside of Selma, Alabama. Viola Liuzzo was everything they despised: a white female outside agitator riding in a car with a lone passenger, a black man.
To author Mary Stanton, Viola Liuzzo died a martyr. Her book, From Selma to Sorrow, is an attempt to grapple with one nagging question: why was Liuzzo vilified by the media and law enforcement? For St...
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