Mary Stanton
  
    
  
      
            
      
        
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                Mary Stanton is the author of From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo (University of Georgia, 1998). (1999)
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  Articles by Mary Stanton
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        October 1, 1999 -
        
  
        Alabama, 1965 Viola Liuzzo died for her convictions in the 1960s freedom movement, and is the only white woman honored on the Civil Rights Memorial. But few know her story — and why authorities conspired to keep her from being known as a hero.