¶ … Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo by Mary Stanton. Specifically it will discuss the book and the author incorporating particular questions into the essay. "From Selma to Sorrow" tells the story of Viola Liuzzo, a white civil rights worker and mother murdered in Selma, Alabama in 1965 and the only white woman to be honored on the Civil Rights Memorial. The book opens up new questions about law enforcement and the South during the 1960s, and makes the reader stop and think about all the senseless violence that has been committed simply because of race or religion. This book is a biography, but it also encompasses the history and beliefs of the time, giving the reader a glimpse into the past and events that cannot be changed. 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...
Leone Nelly Sachs was born in Berlin on December 10, 1891. She was the only child of a wealthy Berlin industrialist. The family lived in the Tiergartenviertel, a fashionable area of Berlin. Because of her family's wealth, Nelly was educated by private tutors her before she entered the Berliner Hhere Tchterschule. She studied music and dancing, and at an early age began writing poetry. Her early love of literature came
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