Monday, March 17, 2008

 

Midterm Post

I will give you the entire class period to write. You can meet me here in the Writing Center L-234.

Read the essay on Penny Liuzzo Herrington, daughter of Viola Luizzo, an essay plan, an outline and you can even bring in an introductory paragraph. If you have the book, read pages 193-194. If you don't have the book, look up the word: "martyr."

Choose one of the following questions and respond to "Penny Liuzzo Herrington" (195) in a minimally 250-500 word essay. Use on direct quote, one paraphrase and one block quote.

1. Who is Penny Luizzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death on her life?

2. Describe Viola Liuzzo and the type of person she was. In reading the story, do you think her participation in the Civil Rights Movement was unexpected?

3. Talk about the involvement of the FBI in the Viola Liuzzo case. How did the injustice affect the members of Viola Liuzzo's family? How did Penny find peace?

Comments:
Christopher Yee
10-12
201A

As a character of her own short story. Penny Liuzzo Herrington wrote Children of the Martyrs. This short story takes place during the civil rights movement. Penny Luizzo is the daughter of Viola Liuzzo, a determined women who went to Selma to help marchers in their protests. Viola was unable to continue watching civil rights marchers being beaten and abused. Viola was murdered during her stay in Selma. Her murder took her family and community by surprise. Following her murder, her family began to fall apart and the people who did not support Viola's movment did not make it any easier for her family.
Viola's murder scarred her family. "The loss of her mother and the public backlash shattered penny's family. Her father never recovered. Her sisters and brothers struggled. And Penny carried around a knot of bitterness for years." On page 197. Penny's younger siblings had a much more difficult time dealing with the murder of their mother. As they grew older, into young adults they had vauge memories of their mother and how she was like. They had forgotten how her voice was like, they had forgotten what it was like to have a mother around. Viola's absence affected her childrens deeply.
"Penny says she was shocked to learn about the FBI's role in her mother's death. At first, i thought they were the heroes, i was dissapoined. i didnt wanit to to be that way.. i wanted America to be like our forefathers wanted it to be, and it's not." On page 202. After many years had passed, Viola's family discovered that the FBI had a part in the misleading information given to the press. For many years their family had to defend themselves from the press and angry mobs. Viola's murder was one of the most shocking and discussed moments in the civil rights movement. Even till this day, her children have to deal with a great loss and grew up to have very little trust in the government.
 
Davis Nguyen
March 19, 2008
10-12
Question1 : Who is Penny Liuzzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death on her life?

Penny Liuzzo was the oldest daughter of viola Liuzzo. Penny had a very close relationship with her mother.
“I’m never going to see you again, mom. I know it. I just feel it, please let me go in you place. I’ll go.”
Viola Liuzzo was murder one day when she was driving a nineteen year old black man, by the name Leroy Morton, one of the many civil rights march she drove around Selma. When Viola Liuzzo was murder it became international news. Viola was a very hard worker. She was a type of person who would not just stay home and be an ordinary house wife. She wanted to make a difference.
The death of Viola Liuzzo had a very big effect on Penny Liuzzo. When Viola Liuzzo died of of people harassed Penny and her family. People would send her magazines that had pictures of her body and her dead body. Even Penny’s little six years old sister was harassed. When she would walk to school people would throw rocks at her and taunt her. Couple of years later when Sally and Penny went to go and visit her grave, Sally started was so sad she started crying on to Penny’s shoulder saying how did mother sound, I can’t not remember what she was like.
The family all tried to move on. One way Penny tried to move on was she decided to get married so her mind could move on, but it don’t not help at all. It just turned the marriages worst, and still she could not forget her mother. One was Penny was able to overcome the pain was by thinking of her mother’s attitude towards Hate. “My mom said the best thing, and I took it to heart: ‘Hate hurts the hater, not the hated. It eats you up. It’s too consuming. It makes you so unhappy.”
 
Alejandro Aguilar
March 19, 2008
10-12
Penny Liuzzo Herrington

3. Talk about the involvement of the FBI in the Viola Liuzzo case. How did the injustice affect the members of Viola Liuzzo’s Family? How did Penny find peace?

Penny Liuzzo Herrington, daughter of Viola Liuzzo, found out one night that her mother was killed by an enraged mob. A car full of Ku Klux Klansmen outside Selma shot her. She was giving a ride to one of the Civil Right Marchers (Leroy Moton) because Viola had volunteered to help in the movement’s car pool system. Luizzo dropped off her passengers in Selma and returned with Moton to Montgomery. There she drove alongside a car filled with four white men, one of the men shot Liuzzo in the head, killing her instantly.
Everyone in her family suffered from the tragedy. Her father began to drink excessively, and her daughters were treated like dirt in school. The public did not show any sympathy towards them, instead they left nothing but hate mail. Articles were written calling Viola a deranged communist and asked people to take surveys, fifty-five percent said she brought death on herself.
“It was horrible,” Penny says. “People sent this magazine that showed her body in the car with the blood and bullet holes. They called her a white whore and a nigger lover, and said that she was having relations with black men.”(Pg 196)
Later they came to find out that the FBI initiated the attack on Viola, an FBI informant was in the car with then men who killed her. The four Ku Klux Klansmen were arrested, but oddly enough the all white, all male jury did not give adequate sentences. Three only got 10 years in prison and the fourth was granted immunity. The FBI did not stop there they gave false information to the press stating that Liuzzo had mental problems, and that she was having sex with black men. Penny said her father was eaten away by the criticism, “It took the soul right out of him, he never was the same, and he started drinking a lot”. (Pg 201) Even after admitting that the FBI shredded 10,000 pages of documents connected to Liuzzo’s murder, the FBI won the case.
Penny found peace by always thinking positively, sure she missed her mother but she never once blamed God “higher power” for what happened. Penny says, “My mom said the best thing, and I took it to heart: Hate hurts the hater, not the hated. It eats you up. It is too consuming. It makes you so unhappy. “(Pg 205) Because of what she remembers about her mother, and after the birth of her sons, she was able to find peace with herself. She found something else to live for.
 
Ewa Dobrzynska
English 201
March 19, 2008

1. Who is Penny Luizzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death on her life?

Penny Luizzo Herrington is the eldest child of Viola. “She is a warm and open woman who loves to laugh. It’s odd to connect tragedies with such a cheerful woman. Viola was shot to death by a car full of Ku Klux Klansmen during Civil Right Movement. “She was murdered while giving a right to 19 years old black man, Leroy Moton, one of many civil rights marchers she drove around Selma. Penny Liuzzo did not want her mother to go to Selma. She knew she would loose her mother. Viola’s murder becomes international news in media and press. After what happened people even more disrespect Viola’s determination to help marchers in Selma. People burned crosses in front her house, telling the stories that Viola had sex with black man, called her whore and nigger lover.
This situation had a huge impact on Penny Luizzo’s life and lives of her family. Sally, Penny’s six-year-old sister suffered from a public’s wrath. Children threw rocks at her when she went to school. After the murder all family was even more devastated by public. Penny’s father never recovered and her sisters and brothers suffered-they lost them beloved mom. ‘My heart just broke when Sally was eleven years old and we went to visit my mom’s grave and she just sobbed on my shoulder, ’Please, tell me what she was like. I don’t remember. I can’t remember her voice.”(page197) Penny’s father was eaten by whole situation. He started drink a lot and died. Pennys’ brothers dropped out high school.
Penny admits that her mother’s death made her pessimistic, but with time she started live again. She forgave her mom’s killer and she becomes appreciate her own life. She is proud of her mother and active life.

“Over the years, Penny’s says, she found herself dreaming about her mother. She misses her spark and energy. ‘Sometimes when I ’m feeling blue, I wish I could call my mother up” (page 204)

It took long time before Penny and her family could live normal lives. It is hard when you have to live with lies of press and unreal facts. Penny’s realize that she can not be bitter all her life, because she has to be an example for her children. She needed to grown up. She suffered but:
“Everybody lives with their own torture. She didn’t hesitate because she’s now found something else to live for-her sons. Penny says she doesn’t want to hurt anymore. So she’s chosen to be grateful, no bitter. It’s her mother would have wanted. ‘I really have a good live. I’m not the richest person in the world. But I have people who love me and adore me. …I would never come up with the gift [God] gave me’”. (page 205)

In conclusion I would like to say that we can not to be bitter for all our life. Sometimes is coming the day we need to accept the facts and life the live not affected because the life is only one. There is no thing we would not be able to forget. Even the John Paul II forgave the person who wanted to kill him. Remember to go throw your live the best way you can and don’t be afraid do anything you want to do.
 
Raymond Wong
10-12
201AB

2. Describe Viola Liuzzo and the type of person she was. In reading the story, do you think her participation in the Civil Rights Movement was unexpected?

Viola Liuzzo was part of the civil rights movement. She was car-pooling demonstrators in Selma, Alabama from marches and demonstrations. Viola was murdered one night when she was driving home a nineteen-year-old black man named Leroy Moton. Her daughter, Penny Liuzzo had a feeling something was going to happen to her mom if she went to Selma, but Viola was determine to help people in the civil rights movement. After she saw on the news of people being beaten up she said, “I’m tired of sitting here watching people get beat up,” (195) before heading to Selma to work on the movement.
Viola Liuzzo was a selfless person who cared about everyone around her more then herself, so being of the movement was not a shock. Liuzzo once gave her entire paycheck to a person who was laid-off without severance pay. She was a person who always kept working to help people, according to Mary Stanton, the author of Viola Liuzzo biography said:
She was intrigued by Liuzzo’s refusal to play the part of the submissive housewife. While her neighbors were taking cooking classes or doing church volunteer work, Liuzzo was preparing for a career, crusading for workplace rights, and going back to college. (198)
She was going to help the movement and nobody could stop her, even a premonition from her daughter that something bad was going to happen did not stop her from going to help the cause.
After arriving in Selma, she joined the movement’s transportation committee, who drove rights marcher around. On the last day of the five-day march, she was driving marchers from Montgomery to Selma; four Ku Klux Klan members killed her along the highway. According to the police report, she had died instantly due to a shot to the head. She knew the dangers of being in the march, but wanted to do it anyways to make a difference in the world. Viola was a saint even before movement; she always loved helping people so being part of the civil rights movement was unsurprisingly.
 
Koung Chaiyasane
201A 10-12
3/19/08

The story Penny Liuzzo Herrington Daughter of Viola Liuzzo. The involvement of the FBI in Viola Liuzzo case, how did the injustice affect the members of Viola Liuzzo’s family, and how did penny find peace:

The FBI went after Liuzzo’s reputation. Stanton says they tried to cover up for the fact that their informant in the car did nothing to prevent Liuzzo’s murder. Hoover began telling President Johnson that Liuzzo was having sex with black men, was a drug addict, and had a husband who was involved in organized crime. The FBI leaked this misinformation to the press, which soon began writing stories questioning Liuzzo’s mental health (she had once suffered a nervous breakdown) and her morality. (201)

Anthony Liuzzo Jr. he is the eldest son of Viola Liuzzo, he filed a $2 million lawsuit against the FBI on behalf of himself and his siblings for the agency’s complicity in his mother’s death. And during the trial, the FBI admitted that it had shredded 10,000 pages of documents connected to Liuzzo’s murder. Still, the FBI won. In 1983 a federal judge threw out the lawsuit and ordered the family to pay the government $80,000 in court costs. The judge later changed that demand after the television show 20/20 did a report on the trial and people became outraged at the judge’s order. (202)

Penny was able to overcome bitterness, she was thinking of her mother’s attitude toward hate. Penny said “her mom said the best thing is to take it in to heart: “Hate hurts the hater, not the hated. It eats you up. It’s too consuming. It makes you so unhappy.’” (205)

Even if the answer to the case will be different, from what you think it should be, it doesn’t matter if you know the answer to forgive. In Penny Liuzzo Herrington Daughter of Viola Liuzzo story, Penny know how to forgive in the ending, how her around, would make her think back to her mother words, best thing is to take it to heart.
 
Carmen Truong
Sabir 10-12
1. Who is Penny Luizzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death on her life?

Penny Luizzo Herrington is the daughter of Viola Liuzzo, she “is a warm and open woman who loves to laugh.” She married twice before just like her mother did. Penny was close with her mother and also became like friends. She went through a sad moment with her family when her mother left to Selma and was murdered by a man named Eugene Thomas.
One day, Viola Liuzzo called home and told her family that she was leaving to Selma, Penny was sad how unexpected that was. Penny was young at the time and asks her mother if she could leave with her, her mother “laughed off her daughters fear.” After she left, a call came at mid night; Penny father answers the phone and said, “Penny, your mom is dead.” Everything seems to changed, because she was helping black people, readers from A Ladies Home Journal magazine asked what kind of woman will actually leave her family behind for a civil rights demonstration. The magazine also stated that “she was having relationships with black men, and they called her white whore and a nigger lover.” The family was going through rough times, Penny was sad over the years trying to know what exactly happened to her mother, and her dad drink a lot and even in school students would throw rocks at the youngest child Sally.
Although Penny doesn’t agree with her mother leaving them, but after 40 years later, she felt very strongly about her mother gave her life to the country to help the civil rights movement, and not a racism women. In my opinion, Penny never hated her mother but thinks her mother is very brave and wants to be like her mom. After Penny found the murder of her mother she forgave him. She doesn’t want to be hurt again and just wanted to live happily.
“She didn’t hesitate because she’s now found something else to live for –her sons. Penny says she doesn’t want to hurt anymore. So she’s chosen to be grateful, not bitter. It’s what her mother would have wanted. “I really have a good life. I’m not the richest person in the world. But I have people who love and adore me.”
Penny is finally letting go her mother’s death and be a better person to survive happily with her childrens.
 
Erik Del Nero
3/19/08
English 201 B
Mid Term Essay

Who is Penny Luizzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death on her life? There was a huge impact on her life. I mean the death of your Mom. Since her mother death her family slowly started to fall apart piece by piece. As Penny’s mom told her that she was going to Selma Penny knew at that point she was never going to see her mom again, and sadly enough she was right. Not long after her mom left they got a phone call and her dad answered and said to Penny your mother’s dead. The death of Viola Liuzzo was one of the most shocking moments in the Civil Rights Movement.
Penny’s six year old sister could not escape the family drama either. While attending school the other students would taunt and throw rocks at her. Since Penny is the oldest she is the only one who has the best of what their mother was like. Today Penny is a mom herself. She has a total of four children and they are all boys.
Penny says that “I just graduated high school and we had just become friends”. The next is when Penny’s mom went to Selma. On the last day of the march Liuzzo was shot in the head and died instantly. The people who killed her were four members of the Ku Klux Klan: Eugene Thomas, William Eaton, Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr. and Thomas Rowe Jr. A few years later Penny and her family tried to put a lawsuit against the FBI for unfair treatment, but lost and had to pay the court fee.
In conclusion I think Penny and her family did everything they could do about their mother’s death. To me losing your mother must be one of the hardest things you will ever have to go through. I don’t think I would handle it well at all because mom is extreme special to me. There is nothing like a mothers love and everyone knows what I mean.


Outline:
• What Question do you want your research paper to answer? Who is Penny Luizzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death on her life?
• Family problem after mother’s death.
• Penny and Viola relationship
• What I thought

Planning sheet:
1. What is the subject of your paper? Penny Liuzzo Harrington
2. Why do you want to write about this subject? I was told to.
3. What audience will you write for? ( Your audience will determine whether you need to technical or broad based information from your sources.) The people I am writing for are the student at COA.
4. What Question do you want your research paper to answer? Who is Penny Liuzzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death on her life?
5. What is the main writing strategy you think you will use? ( Description, process or causal analysis, compare/ contrast, Problem/ solution, classification, or argument are some possibilities.) I will probably use description.
 
TJ Eggleston
March 19, 2008
Eng 201A-B
10-12pm
Professor Wanda Sabir


Penny Liuzzo Herrington: Daughter of Viola Liuzzo

1. What is the subject of your paper? Penny Liuzzo Herrington: Daughter of Viola Liuzzo.
2. Why do you want to write about this subject? It was chosen for the students by the teacher.
3. What audience will you write for? (Your audience will determine whether you need technical or broad based information from your sources.) The students at the College of Alameda.
4. What questions do you want your research paper to answer? Basically, the five W’s, the “who, what, when, where, and why” of the essay. The main questions.
5. What is the main writing strategy you think you will use? (Description, process or casual analysis, compare/contrast, problem/solution, classification, or argument are some possibilities.) I think a combination of compare/contrast and problem/solution.
 
Michael Tran
class afternoon 1pm-3pm
march 19 2008

3. Talk about the involvement of the FBI in the Viola Liuzzo case. How did the injustice affect the members of Viola Liuzzo's family? How did Penny find peace?

In the essay Penny Liuzzo Herrington is the mother of Vila liuzzo who shockingly got news that her mother died. Her mother called her earlier to tell them that she was heading to Selma. Penny was determined to do the march. She was murder by four members in the Ku Klux Klan outside of Selma.

People started to suffer the big lost due to the death of beloved Viola. After her death people sent hateful mail and curse the family names for a long time. Even the Ladies’ home Journal suggested that “she brought death to herself by leaving home.”(Page196). And 55 perfect of the readers agree but most of them are probably white. Just being related to her just made there life a living shame. The people at school treated Viola children like trash and also they toss rocks at them. President Johnson was broadcast on television the next day to inform the world of the arrest of four Members in the Ku Klux Klan age range from 41-21 years old. The four men went to court and three of them were sentence to prison and the fourth got out free. The FBI soon went after reputation. Even Hoover began telling false information about Penny’s life. He told Johnson she was having sex with black men, drug addict, and husband was involved in crimes. Anthony Liuzzo Jr. Soon filed a 2 million dollar lawsuit against the FBI for his family “complicity of his mothers death.” Also, the FBI admitted shredded 10 thousands pages of documents connect to Liuzzo cast. The FBI won still won and in 1983 the judge made the Liuzzo family pay 80 thousands. Anothony Liuzzo Sr. was view as a failure, “he was seen as a macho teamster who couldn’t keep his woman in line.” (Page 201). He also died in 1978, for a decade he wanted the FBI to return the wedding ring of his beloved wife and he finally got it back after two years after his death.

In the end Penny found peace by letting the memories stay with her. Another way she overcame anger was thinking about her mother attitude towards hate. Thomas walked in the courtroom (one of the men who was sent to prison of the death of Viola) he asked forgiven and she said, “yeah, I do.”(page 205). She also found the biggest thing in life which is god and her sons. “I would never have come up with gift he gave me.”(page 205)
 
Eng 201A 1-3

Planning sheet:
1.What is the subject of your paper?
Penny Liuzzo Harrington,daughter of Viola Liuzzo.
2.Why do you want to write about this subject?
After Viola Liuzzo’s death how Penny Liuzzo lives without her mother and describe what was the impact of her mother’s death on her life.
3.What audience will you write for?
Alameda College Students who might not know anything about the CRM.
4.What Question do you want your research paper to answer?
Who is Penny Liuzzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death on her life?
5.What is the main writing strategy you think you will use?
Use description.

Who is Penny Luizzo Herrrington and what was the impact of her mother, Viola Liuzzo’s death on her life?

Penny Liuzzo Herrington is daughter of Viola Liuzzo who was murdered by a car full of Ku Klux Klansmen during the Selma campaign in 1965. Viola Liuzzo, she joined the movement’s transportaion committee:
Liuzzo dropped off her passengers in Selma and returned with Moton to Mongomery to pick up more marchers. They were driving on Highway 80 when a car filled with four white men pulled alongside Liuzzo’s car. One of the men shot Liuzzo in the head, killing her instantly, according to police reports (Children of the Movement 200).
After that accident the picture of Viola Liuzzo was distributed by media all of the country. She died and left behind a husband and five kids.

After Viola Liuzzo’s death all of her family members had a hard time. Her husband, Anthony Liuzzo Sr., never recovered after her death. Her two sons retreated from society. Sally and Penny had two bad marriages. Only Mary became successful executive. Penny Liuzzo, the eldest one of her five kids, was married and divorced twice. She has four sons and lives with her boyfriend near Fresno, California. She is housewife and has hard time with her diabetes. She is pessimistic about own future made by her mother’s death. However, she has a warm and open heart also likes to laugh (202).

Penny Liuzzo spent the most of time with her mother. So she was influenced by her mother very much. She said, “My mother said the best thing, and I took it to heart: 'Hate hurts the hater, not the hated. It eats you up. It’s too consuming. It makes you so unhappy'”(205).
She has learns to forgive and live without bitterness with her life which her mother taught her. So she forgives her mother’s killer. One of the killers asked Penny to forgive him. She didn’t hesitate to answer that question. She said “Yeah I do”(205). After he was heard her answer her mother’s killer was freed from his own agony. Also Penny released from her own torture after answered the question.
 
Irene Nu
1-3
201b


Planning Sheet:

What is the subject of your paper?
The subject of my paper is Penny Luizzo Herrington and the impact of her mother

Why do you want to write about this subject?
I want to write about this subject because I feel that is it important for audience to know who are Penny Luizzo Herrington and the impact of her mother

What audience will write for? (Your audience will determine whether you need technical or broad-based information from your sources.)
My audience will be College of alameda students

What question do you want your research paper to answer?
I want my research paper to answer who Penny Luizzo Herrington is and the impact of her mother

What is the main strategy you think you will use? (Description, process or causal analysis, compare/contrast, problem/ solution, classification, or arguments are some possibilities)


Penny Luizzo Herrington is daughter of Viola Liuzzo. Penny and her mother were like friends after Penny graduated from high school. Penny were one of the child who have abundant of memories of her mother because she was the eldest child and she spent the most time with her, out of all her Childs. Viola Liuzzo was ambushed and shot to death by KKK men because she was helping the civil right marchers.

Viola Liuzzo helped the civil rights marchers because she saw them getting beaten up on newsreel footage. “I’m tired of sitting here watching people get beat up”(195), when viola told her family that she were going to Selma to help the civil rights marcher, her daughter penny tried to stopped her but she just laughed her daughters tears off. Viola were shot and ambushed to death by some Ku Klux Klan men while giving a ride to a 19 year old black man who is a civil rights marcher. Liuzzo death became international news, her pictures that showed her body in the car with the blood and bullet holes were showed on magazines. After her murdered penny’s home were filled hate mail, accusing her mother to be deranged communist and crosses were burn outside her house. “The lost of her mother and the public backlash shattered penny’s family. Her father never recovered, her sisters and brothers struggled” (197). “The FBI tried to cover up for the fact that their information in the car did nothing to prevent liuzzo’s murder. Hoover began telling the president Johnson that liuzzo were having sex with black men, was a drug addict, and had a husband who was involved in organized crime”(201). Penny’s father started drinking a lot and students would throw rocks at viola youngest child Sally when she walks to school.

Their family tried to fight the case with the FBI but at the end they lost. “Anthony Liuzzo jr. were filed $2 million dollars lawsuit against the FBI on behalf of himself and his sibling for the agency’s complicity in his mother’s death” (202). Bitterness was held in Penny all these years, but later she overcome bitterness was thinking of what her mother have done and her attitude towards hate have done to her. Penny learns that being biter was not what her mother death wants her to learn. Penny soon realized how can she be a good mom and be hateful, parents were suppose to be role models for their kids. She now has something to live for after accepting the apology from Thomas one of the KKK men who killed her mother viola, her son. She will live happily because she has people who love and adore her, she will live for her sons.
 
Jessica Ramos
1-3

Planning Sheet:
1.What is the subject of your paper?
Penny Liuzzo
2.Why do you want to write about this subject?
To learn more about Penny Liuzzo.
3.What audience will you write for?
Students who don’t know who Penny Liuzzo is.
4.What question do you want your research paper to answer?
Who is Penny Liuzzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother,Viola Liuzzo’s death on her life?
5.What is the main writing strategy you think you will use?
Describe who Penny Liuzzo is.



Outline:
Penny Liuzzo was Viola’s eldest daughters; she was very close to her mother and because of this her mother’s death had a lot of impact on her.
Penny’s relationship with her mother
Penny’s impact of her mother’s death
Penny’s life changed a lot after her mother’s death. She had four siblings and they all suffered a lot because is very hard to overcome the death of a mother.



1.Who is Penny Liuzzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death on her life?



Viola Liuzzo was a woman who died for helping other people. She was involved in the civil rights movement carpool system. She got killed while she was giving a ride to a black man. Viola’s death was very devastating and it got her family very hurt. Viola left behind five children including Penny Liuzzo Herrington and her husband. They all struggled and Penny’s father never recovered. It was very hard for them to know that Viola had been killed just because she was helping other people out. Penny Liuzzo was Viola’s oldest daughters and she was very close to her mother and because of this, her mother’s death had a lot of impact on her.
Viola’s daughter, Penny, was the one she spent most of the time with, they were both very close (198). When Penny’s mother died she was young and it was very hard for her to experience the death of her mother. “By 1965 [the year that Viola died], Penny was becoming closer to her mom after some stormy adolescent years” (199). When you are very close to someone and then that person leaves it’s very hard to get the whole idea that they won’t be there anymore by your side and it’s extremely harder if this person is one of your parents. Penny was so close to her mother that when her she died “a wave of nausea suddenly swept over her. In an instant, she knew what had happened. ‘Oh my God,’ she thought…‘my mom’s dead’” (195).
Penny had some feelings that something bad was going to happen to her mom while she was on her trip, Penny “tried to persuade her mother not to go, telling her that she would die” (199). But Penny’s mom didn’t pay any attention to this and she just left. When Penny heard the news that her mom was dead she got very sad, the whole family was just not feeling the same anymore, and they couldn’t overcome Viola’s death. “After her mother’s death, Penny, too, felt as if she were being dragged into despair with the rest of her family” (203). The death of Viola was very hard for all of them, especially Viola’s husband, which never recovered. The death of Penny’s mother made her very sad but it also made her get angry. “‘She was angry at the government. She was angry at the KKK’” (204). Penny was mad at them because they were responsible for her mother’s death. Penny’s life wasn’t the same after her mother’s death. Penny had four siblings which all suffered a lot and had a very hard time to overcome the death of their mother.
 
Javier Chavez
English 201 B 1-3

Response to Question #3

Viola Liuzzo was a big supporter of the civil rights movement. She was not the kind of woman to be sitting at home saying “Oh my that’s horrible what happening down there!” She is the type of woman that would actively engage in things that interested her and she felt worth fighting for. On March 26, 1965 Viola Liuzzo was murdered. She was shot to death in her car by four members from the Klu Klux Klan. She was trying to help out the civil rights marchers by carpooling. What even worse was that the FBI was involved with her death. The FBI was mostly to blame for the pain and suffering that the Liuzzo family went through.
After Viola’s death, there was a public backlash. There was a women’s magazine who said that Viola “brought the death on herself by leaving home-and fifty-five percent of its readers agreed.”(196) The FBI was involved with the public backlash. They released her psychiatric records and said that she was promiscuous. Thomas Rowe Jr. was the FBI informant who took part in the death of Viola. After the four men were arrested they had one unsuccessful trial, but then the trial was moved to a different jurisdiction and the men were tried under different charges. Three of the men were sent to ten years in prison but Rowe was granted immunity. The FBI also leaked false information from Hoover about Viola and her husband. The FBI made it incredibly difficult for Viola’s family to continue to live a normal life:
The effect on the other family members also was devastating. Penny had two bad marriages: so did Sally. Penny says both married too quickly as a way of taking their minds off the loss of their mother. Sally was hit particularly hard by the death of her mother and, later her father. “Sally has just got a grip on her life and she’s in her forties.” Penny says. “She was an orphan at twenty.” (202)
Her two sons were also hit hard by the FBI’s involvement. Anthony Liuzzo Jr. tried to sue the FBI for two million dollars and although the FBI admitted that they shredded 10,000 pages of documents connected with Viola’s murder, the FBI still won. The government made the Liuzzo family pay 80,000 dollars in court cost. Anthony Liuzzo Jr. now lives underground in the backwoods of Michigan. He has a deep distrust of the government. (202-203)
After all horrible things that happened to Penny and her family she was still able to find peace. She found it in her heart to forgive one of the men involved with Viola’s death, Thomas Rowe Jr., face to face. Penny did not want to live her life full of hate and pain. She decided to fill her heart with happiness and the love of those around her. She said that she didn’t want to be a mom who is hateful. Penny said “My mom said the best thing, and I took it to heart: ‘Hate hurts the hater not the hated...’(205)
 
Chesi Brown
English 201B
Instructor Ms.Sabir
March 19, 2008


Penny Luizzo Herrington

Penny Luizzo Herrington is a woman who has learned to forgive and love again. After mother, Viola Luizzo’s death in Selma in 1965, she had been a transporter for marcher in the civil right movement. When killed driving a black passenger home.

Viola was a white women and a mother on her way to Wayne State University. While attending she heard Martin Luther King Jr. speech. She was so motivated by the speech she new she wanted to be apart of the movement. She soon volunteered to help the transportation committee. This position is someone who transports civil right marchers around (black or whites) in Selma. On the fifth day of her tragic death, Viola was giving a black passenger a ride home, and she was killed. President Johnson announced that four white men who were members of the “KKK” were being convicted of the crime; this is reasonable doubt that the FBI was the one’s who initiated the hit.

Penny is now fifty-five year old, a mother of four boys, and is now bitter free women after letting go of her mother unjustified death. She has learned to forgive and let go of thing she has know control over. Viola death has made Penny realized that you can’t live with hate in your heart, and it not healthy especially if you have kids. Penny has learned to except that thing happen for reason. She has notice that her mother death has made her stronger, and a better mother. Penny states:

She doesn’t want to hurt anymore. So she’s chosen to be grateful, not bitter. It’s what her mother would have wanted. “I really have a good life. I’m not the richest person in the world. But I have people who I love and adore me. All four of my boys, I never had a major problem with my kids.”(pg.205)

Penny is a casualty of war and a perfect example of survivor. She has learned to love again, even those who have hurt her the most. Penny is a believer and as grown to forgive. Thomas Rowe Jr. one of the murderers, who she seen for the first time in 1975, while attending court for a law suit that way filed by Penny’s family in regards of the death of her mother. Has he exited the building he asks Penny to forgive him? Everyone was shock at Penny’s response, people couldn’t understand why she responded the way she did. She told them, “she actually felt sorry for Thomas, and “Every body lives with their own torture.”(pg.205)
 
Chesi Brown
English 201B
Instructor Ms. Sabir
March 19, 2008




Planning Sheet

1. What is the subject of your paper?

a) Penny Liuzzo Herrington death and the impact on her life.

2. Purpose:

a) To evaluate Penny’s life after her mother’s death.

3 What is the Audience:

a) My peers, my instructor, majority of the student or young adults in the world who are unaware of the Viola Luizzo or the civil rights movement.
4. What question do you want your researcher paper to answer?

a) What impact dose Penny has now her mother is deceased.

5. What is the main writing strategy you think you will be using.

a) Problem/solution, I’m identifying the problem that her mother was killed, and it had a negative impacted that is unjustified, and is verbally slandered in the public for her involvement in the civil right movement. My solution is she learned to let go and forgive thing that she has know control over.
 
Lewis Holman
1-3
eng 201B

planning sheet

1.What is the subject of your paper?
Who is Penny Liuzzo Herrington and what was the impact on her from her mothers, Viola Liuzzos, death.

2.Why do you want to write about this subject?
I want to write about this subject because I haven’t heard of something like this happening to a family.

3.What audience will you write for?
I am writing to COA students who might not know anything about the CRM and how people were willing to die for their right to be equal.

4.What question do you want your research paper to answer?
Who is Penny Liuzzo Herrington and what was the impact on her from her mothers, Viola Liuzzos, death.

5.What main writing strategy you think you will use?
I will describe the situation to the reader, classify certain arguments made by the Liuzzo family and possibly arguments that I have.


1.Who is Penny Liuzzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother’s, Viola Liuzzo death on her life?

Penny Liuzzo is one of the eldest of 5 siblings and the daughter of Viola Liuzzo. Her mother, Viola Liuzzo, was killed for being involved with the civil rights movement. The death of her mother has shattered Penny and her family, most of them couldn’t recover from such a loss. Before Viola left to Selma Penny asked her not to go because Penny knew that her mother was going to die, but Viola laughed it off and a predicted fear came true.
Viola Liuzzo was a white woman from the north who didn’t really care about skin color. She went to Selma to originally take some classes at Wayne State University for fashion, and she soon ended up involving herself in the movements’ transportation committee, ferrying marchers around Selma. When other white people saw here driving around black men in the south, they felt betrayed by her. One night while on the side of the road, four KKK members shot and killed her.
The death of Viola Liuzzo was harsh on her family. People criticized and shut them away from the community because of her activism in the movement. The four KKK members were put in jail and sentenced to only 3 years; it wasn’t until later that the family found out that one of the shooters worked for the FBI, which the government tried to cover up. “Anthony Liuzzo found himself defending his wife’s character before newspaper reporter.” (CM p. 201) Viola’s husband, Anthony Liuzzo stood up behind the lies that the media’s portrayed, but was viewed as failure, losing case after case. He later died in 1978, leaving behind his five kids.
In 1983, a federal judge ordered the family to pay the government $80,000 in court costs, but the court dropped the charge when the T.V. show 20/20 reported the story. This whole controversy changed Penny’s view of the government. She no longer viewed them as heroes. Her brothers also developed a deep distrust for the federal government after learning about the FBI’s role in their mother’s death.
As a result for the death of Viola Liuzzo, no one was severely punished for this crime. Her kids and husband had to deal with the criticism and lies from others about their mother/wife, but in the end they all found peace as they grew older because that’s what their mother would’ve wanted for them. They no longer felt hatred toward the men that killed their mother, they felt sorry for them. They no longer wanted to live in anger, but in peace, so they choose to be grateful for life, hoping that one day they would see their kids grow old.
 
Kenyatta Roberson
3-19-08
Eng.201b

Question 2: Describe Viola Liuzzo and the type of person she was. In reading the story do you think her participation in the Civil Rights Movement was unexpected?

This story is about penny Liuzzo Herrington the daughter of viola Liuzzo. Liuzzo was a white a woman who told her family that she was leaving to Selma to volunteer her role as a driver that joined the Civil rights Movement’s car pool system, soon after arriving in the small Alabama town. Viola was a courageous person who was tired of hearing about all of the negative effects of racial discrimination against blacks. Therefore, she decided to leave her home town in order to take her heroic position in changing the views of the law.

Viola didn’t like the way black people where getting treated in the south. “My mom said the best thing, and I took it to heart: ‘Hate hurts the hater, not the hated. It eats you up. It’s too consuming. It makes you so unhappy.’” (pg 205 par.1) she didn’t like what was going on at the time in the south, so she volunteered in the Civil rights Movement for peace. The civil rights movement was in deed unexpected in the eyes of her family. Due to the fact that he had not informed them of what she was going to do, until the morning before she was scheduled to leave her home town of Selma.

Deep down in her heart, I believe that she just wanted piece and felt that blacks and whites were just as entitled to their share of equal rights. Viola was a woman that stood up for minorities when none of the other white people would else would. In Liuzzo’s eyes that was an injustice that had to be corrected. She was brutally murdered by Government officials for righting a wrong that was not suppose to be reconciled. Then her Children were subjected to the ignorance these people caused. Her daughter, Penny said, I’m never going to see you again, mom. I know it. I just feel it. Please let me go in your place. I’ll go.” (pg195 parag. 2)
 
Theresa Smith
English 201A
March 19, 2008
Title Penny Liuzzo Herrington
Daughter of Viola Liuzzo
This essay was about a family that was torn because of the civil rights movement. It was about a white woman who was not frightened to make any decisions her name was Viola Liuzzo, she was a college graduate who had a very good supportive family. Viola was married she had four children Penny, Anthony Jr. Sally, Anthony Sr. who loved her very much and would miss her is she left. “Penny admits that her mother’s death made her pessimistic about her own future. “I prayed every night, ‘God, don’t take me away from my kids. Don’t let me die until my kids are older.” This one particular day Viola has been watching television the civil right movement it viewed several scene of obscene behavior and brutality toward black people. Viola got feed up she told her family the she could not take it anymore she was going to Selma. Leaving her family in distress Viola called up her daughter and told her she was leaving. Penny “tried to talk her mother out of going. “ I’m never going to see you again, Mom. I know it. I just fill it. Please let me go in your place. I’ll go.” Viola refused to listen and that was the last time Penny spoke to her mother. [195]
When Penny’s mother died it caused mental pain for the family. Viola made head line news, everybody was speaking bad about Viola if they was not badgering her, they were messing with her child trying to hurt her by following Sally home and throwing rocks at her. “Penny six year old sister did not escape the public’s wrath. Students threw rocks at her and taunted her on the way to school Penny says.”[197]

Viola hurt her family dearly her husband never recovered from the derogatory statements that were being made on his wife or the brutal murdered his family endured when his wife was giving the young black man Moton a ride back to pick up more people from the movement.
“Hoover began telling President Johnson that Liuizzo was having sex with black men, was a drug addict, organized crime. The FBI then leaked this mis information to the press, which soon began writing stories questioning Liuzzo found him self defending his wife character before news reporter. The Luizzo family would only discover what the FBI had done years later, after obtaining documents under the freedom of Information Act”. [201]

Anthony Jr. tried to sue the court for wrong full death done by the KKK and they threw his case out forcing him to pay top dollars 80,000 in court cause until the people on the streets found out. Anthony was upset with the case and chose just to leave it alone but new in is heart his had to forgive the white men who killed his mother so that he would be able to move on with his life. “Anthony forgave the men” He has forgiven all four of the killers. “Yahweh has a plan for me, “he told on associated Press reporter. “I am not bitter… I am doing my mothers work. [205]
Penny never got over her mother’ s murder it haunted her for years she had began to forgive the four white man that was involved in the killing she fills time and their own demons would kill them. “Penny had to bad marriages; so did Sally. Penny say’s both married to quickly as away of taking their mind off the loss of their mother.” Penny praise's that she will never go through that situation ever again. She does remember her mother and what she used to say” My mom said the best thing, and I took it to heart: Hate hurts the hater, not the hated. It eats you up. It’s to consuming. It makes you unhappy. [205]
 
Ammnah Babikir
3-19-08
Eng.201b

Question 3: Talk about the involvement of the FBI in Viola Liuzz’os family? How did Penny find peace?

The FBI ruined Liuzzo’s reputation by attempting to cover up the murder. The FBI did not include the fact that one of their informants was in the car with the other four white suspects that shot her in the head and killed her instantly, according to the police report. J. Hoover began telling President Johnson that Liuzzo was having sex with black men, accusing her of being a drug addict, and a husband who was involved in organized crime. Then the FBI further more misleads people to believing this misinformation to the press, which lead to questioning her mental health and her morality. This was a case of racism, sexism, and conspiracy.

Anthony Liuzzo Sr., Luizzo’s late husband was seen as a failure who could not keep his woman in check. He later passed away in 1978. He tried to get the FBI to return her wedding ring to him. They did so-two years after he died. Penny, Liuzzos oldest daughter had two bad marriages; so did her youngest daughter Sally. Both of them married to get their minds off their mother’s murder. Sally was also an orphan at the age of 20. Sally took the death of her mother and soon after her father, the hardest. Her two brothers, Tony and Tommy, who were thirteen and ten at the time of their mother’s death, later dropped out of school. Anthony Liuzzo Jr., the eldest son, has jumped in and out of the public eye since the horrific tragedy fell on this family. He filed a $ 2 million dollar lawsuit against the FBI on behalf of himself and his siblings. “My brother always said there was a government conspiracy, but I didn’t believe him,” she said. (pg. 202 parag. 4)

The FBI Informant who was in the suspected car that held the people who savagely murdered Liuzzo, could have easily helped Liuzzo in some shape form or fashion. However, the whole conspiracy was covered up instead of being wildly broadcasted like Reverend Reef’s murder. The whole situation is racist, bias, sexist, and completely corrupt amoungst other things. It is a good thing that her eldest daughter, Penny and son, Anthony Jr. managed to forgive one of the men involved in her mother’s murder. Her children will never forget what they all had to endure. Anthony Jr. says he is not bitter over his mother anymore. He has forgiven all of the killers. "Yahweh has a plan for me," He told one Associated Press reporter. "I am not bitter.... I am doing my mother's work." He says he, too, is battling to uphold the Constitution. "I felt very strongly my mother gave her life for this country. I am willing to do the same." (pg. 203 parag. 2)
 
Sophia Andrews


Of the five children belonging to Viola Liuzzo, Penny Liuzzo Herrington is her eldest child,as well as the one that her mother most connected with. Viola Liuzzo was shot by a group of Klu Klux Klan members, while giving a black male by the name of Leroy Moton a ride home from the march that was hosted in Selma, in which Viola was determined to go,she claimed that she was tired of seeing people get beat up. When Viola called home to tell her family that she was going to the march Penny told her mother “ I’m never going to see you again, Mom. I know it. I just feel it. Please let me go in your place. I’ll go” However Viola laughed her daughters fears off, not knowing that within the next couple of hours the instinct that her daughter had was going to come true. Penny’s such strong connection with her mother resulted in her memories of her mother not being enough to carry on, the impact of her mothers death was pretty damaging.
With penny being the eldest out of her siblings, as well as the one that was closest to her mother this only made things more challenging for Penny to accept. To see them in pain, without an explainantion, as well as a connection with their mother once apoun a time, leaves Penny looked at for answers. Which she does not have.
The effect on Sally her younger sister was brutal, “ My heart just broke when Sally was eleven years old and we went to visit my mom’s grave and she just sobbed on my shoulder, ‘Please tell me what she was like. I don’t remember. I cant remember her voice” But Penny still has plenty of memories of her mother. She was the eldest child and spent the most time with her.
It hurt Penny deeply that her mother was taken from her, and her family, she was bitter for a while, and severely damaged . She got married, because she figured that marriage would minimize the pain for a while. Penny also admitted that her mother’s death made her fear for her own future. She payed to God for her to not be taken away from her children. However she does admit that when she became a mother her bitterness toward the world, The FBI and plenty of others who cared less about her mothers death eased, as well as her unforgetable mothers words “ hate hurtst the hater, not the hated. It eats you up. Its oo consuming. It makes you so unhappy”

Penny had a rough road after mother mother passed, with her being the eldset, and the closest with her mother she was looked to withun her herslef and her siblings for answers. Unfortunately she didn’t
 
Deanna Moody
1-3

Planning sheet:
1)The subject of the paper is Penny Liuzzo Harrington.
2)I wanted to write about this because It was most intresting to me.
3)I am writting to COA students.
4)i want my research paper to anser who is Penny and what impact the mothers death had on the family.
5)The writting strategy i think I'll use is describing who penny and viola is and compare and contrast.


Outline:
I want my research papper to answer the impact on the family's life and who Penny and Viola was.
1)describe Penny and Viola
2)The impact on the family
3)how I felt




Penny Luizzo Harrington is the oldest daughter of Viola Luizzo, a civil rights activist who was killed by the Klu Klux Klan for transporting a black male who was a cilvil rights marcher. Ladies Home Journal magazine suggest that viola was killed because she was involved with other things outside of home and lots of readers agreed. The magazine showed her dead body covered in blood and bullet holes. It mentioned she was a nigger lover who slept around with black men and that she was a whore.(196)
The impact on her family from the death of their mother was very hard and confusing because they were young and did not understand why she'd been killed and why people showed hate toward them and ther mother:
Her father never recovered. Her sisters and brothers struggled. And Penny carried around a knot of bitterness for years....'please , tell me what she was like. I don't remember. I don't remember. Please, I cant remember her voice.'(197)
The family was so disturbed on their mothers death and the way the plublic persued her to be.
In conclusion, Penny is the only on with memories of her mother since they spent alot of time together. Also she went to schools to talk about her mother so she wont be forgotten. I think Penny had the right to be angry with the Klu Klux Klan and the government because her family did not get the proper justice. Even after her and her family hard times she is still grateful to have her family and focuse on forgiveness to move forward. "She came out of this cocoon of loathing, hate, and anger and just blossomed into this beautiful, empathetic person."(204)
 
Sophia Andrews

Initial Planning Sheet
1. What is the subject of your paper?
Penny Luizzo
2. Why do you want to write about this subject?
I am choosing this subject because I would like to see how my writing reflects my reading comprehension
3. What audience are you writing to?
I am writing to those that are also intereted in this subject, as well as those who are in my class, and others who may have taken this course previously, in which they wrote about his topic.
4. What question do you want your paper to answer?
Who was Penny Luizzo and how did her mother’s death impact her?
5. What writing stragety will you be using?
I will be using evidence from the book





Of the five children belonging to Viola Liuzzo, Penny Liuzzo Herrington is her eldest child,as well as the one that her mother most connected with. Viola Liuzzo was shot by a group of Klu Klux Klan members, while giving a black male by the name of Leroy Moton a ride home from the march that was hosted in Selma, in which Viola was determined to go,she claimed that she was tired of seeing people get beat up. When Viola called home to tell her family that she was going to the march Penny told her mother “ I’m never going to see you again, Mom. I know it. I just feel it. Please let me go in your place. I’ll go” However Viola laughed her daughters fears off, not knowing that within the next couple of hours the instinct that her daughter had was going to come true. Penny’s such strong connection with her mother resulted in her memories of her mother not being enough to carry on, the impact of her mothers death was pretty damaging.
With penny being the eldest out of her siblings, as well as the one that was closest to her mother this only made things more challenging for Penny to accept. To see them in pain, without an explainantion, as well as a connection with their mother once apoun a time, leaves Penny looked at for answers. Which she does not have.
The effect on Sally her younger sister was brutal, “ My heart just broke when Sally was eleven years old and we went to visit my mom’s grave and she just sobbed on my shoulder, ‘Please tell me what she was like. I don’t remember. I cant remember her voice” But Penny still has plenty of memories of her mother. She was the eldest child and spent the most time with her. (pg 197)
It hurt Penny deeply that her mother was taken from her, and her family, she was bitter for a while, and severely damaged . She got married, because she figured that marriage would minimize the pain for a while. Penny also admitted that her mother’s death made her fear for her own future. She payed to God for her to not be taken away from her children. However she does admit that when she became a mother her bitterness toward the world, The FBI and plenty of others who cared less about her mothers death eased, as well as her unforgetable mothers words “ hate hurtst the hater, not the hated. It eats you up. Its too consuming. It makes you so unhappy” ( pg 205)

Penny had a rough road after mother mother passed, with her being the eldset, and the closest with her mother she was looked to withun her herslef and her siblings for answers. Unfortunately she didn’t
 
Sophia Andrews

Initial Planning Sheet
1. What is the subject of your paper?
Penny Luizzo
2. Why do you want to write about this subject?
I am choosing this subject because I would like to see how my writing reflects my reading comprehension
3. What audience are you writing to?
I am writing to those that are also intereted in this subject, as well as those who are in my class, and others who may have taken this course previously, in which they wrote about his topic.
4. What question do you want your paper to answer?
Who was Penny Luizzo and how did her mother’s death impact her?
5. What writing stragety will you be using?
I will be using evidence from the book





Of the five children belonging to Viola Liuzzo, Penny Liuzzo Herrington is her eldest child,as well as the one that her mother most connected with. Viola Liuzzo was shot by a group of Klu Klux Klan members, while giving a black male by the name of Leroy Moton a ride home from the march that was hosted in Selma, in which Viola was determined to go,she claimed that she was tired of seeing people get beat up. When Viola called home to tell her family that she was going to the march Penny told her mother “ I’m never going to see you again, Mom. I know it. I just feel it. Please let me go in your place. I’ll go” However Viola laughed her daughters fears off, not knowing that within the next couple of hours the instinct that her daughter had was going to come true. Penny’s such strong connection with her mother resulted in her memories of her mother not being enough to carry on, the impact of her mothers death was pretty damaging.
With penny being the eldest out of her siblings, as well as the one that was closest to her mother this only made things more challenging for Penny to accept. To see them in pain, without an explainantion, as well as a connection with their mother once apoun a time, leaves Penny looked at for answers. Which she does not have.
The effect on Sally her younger sister was brutal, “ My heart just broke when Sally was eleven years old and we went to visit my mom’s grave and she just sobbed on my shoulder, ‘Please tell me what she was like. I don’t remember. I cant remember her voice” But Penny still has plenty of memories of her mother. She was the eldest child and spent the most time with her. (pg 197)
It hurt Penny deeply that her mother was taken from her, and her family, she was bitter for a while, and severely damaged . She got married, because she figured that marriage would minimize the pain for a while. Penny also admitted that her mother’s death made her fear for her own future. She payed to God for her to not be taken away from her children. However she does admit that when she became a mother her bitterness toward the world, The FBI and plenty of others who cared less about her mothers death eased, as well as her unforgetable mothers words “ hate hurtst the hater, not the hated. It eats you up. Its too consuming. It makes you so unhappy” ( pg 205)

Penny had a rough road after mother mother passed, with her being the eldset, and the closest with her mother she was looked to withun her herslef and her siblings for answers. Unfortunately she didn’t
 
Raymond Cade
3-19-08
Engl. 201b

Describe Viola Liuzzo and the type of person she was. In reading the story, do you think her participation in the Civil Rights Movement was unexpected?

This is a story about penny Liuzzo Herrington, the daughter of a Civil Rights activist member. Who gave her life for a peace movement her name was Viola. Viola was a brave person who didn't care about what anyone said including her own daughter. Viola had a good heart and cared about what happened to the individuals who were about peace in Selma.

Viola said “Hate hurts the hater, not the hated." It eats you up. It’s too consuming. It makes you unhappy."(pg. 205)She didn't want to see what was going on in the South; she wanted to play the role of the peace maker.

To Viola, her family it was unexpected that she went to join the Civil Rights Movement's car pool system. Her role was that of the chauffeur to the freedom protesters. In her heart Viola knew that she was going to go. "I’m tired of sitting around watching people getting beat up." (pg. 205) Liuzzo was willing to go because she wanted to stop the unfairness in the south. Penny knew her mother was going to die so she tried talk to her mother out of it.
 
OVERALL THIS ESSAY IS WELL-DONE. THE STRUCTURE IS GOOD. NOTE THE COMMENTS AND REVISE. YOUR GRADE IS 4 BEFORE REVISIONS.

Christopher Yee
10-12
201A

As a character of her own short story COMMA Penny Liuzzo Herrington wrote Children of the Martyrs. SHE DIDN'T WRITE THIS ESSAY, JOHN BLAKE DID. This short story takes place during the civil rights movement. Penny Luizzo is the daughter of Viola Liuzzo, a determined women who went to Selma to help marchers in their protests. Viola was unable to continue watching civil rights marchers being beaten and abused. Viola was murdered during her stay in Selma. Her murder took her family and community by surprise. Following her murder, her family began to fall apart and the people who did not support Viola's PARICIPATION IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS movment did not make it any easier for her family.

Viola's murder scarred her family. "The loss of her mother and the public backlash shattered penny's family. Her father never recovered. Her sisters and brothers struggled. And Penny carried around a knot of bitterness for years" (CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION 197). SEE HACKER. GOOD USE OF TEXT.

Penny's younger siblings had a much more difficult time dealing with the murder of their mother. As they grew older, AND into young adults they had vauge memories of their mother and WHAT she was like. They had forgotten how her voice SOUNDED, they had forgotten what it was like to have a mother around. Viola's absence affected her children deeply.

"Penny says she was shocked to learn about the FBI's role in her mother's death" (PAGE NUMBER). SHE SAYS: "At first, i thought they were the heroes, i was dissapoined. i didnt wanit to to be that way... i wanted America to be like our forefathers wanted it to be, and it's not" (202). SEE SIGNAL PHRASES IN HACKER

After many years had passed, Viola's family discovered that the FBI had a part in the misleading information given to the press. For many years their family had to defend themselves from the press and angry mobs. Viola's murder was one of the most shocking and discussed moments in the civil rights movement (PAGE NUMBER FOR PROOF). TO this day, her children have to deal with a great loss and grew up to have very little trust in the government.
 
SEE COMMENTS. YOUR GRADE NOW, BEFORE REVISIONS IS A 3/4.

Davis Nguyen
March 19, 2008
10-12

Question 1 : Who is Penny Liuzzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death on her life?

Penny Liuzzo was the oldest daughter of viola Liuzzo. Penny had a very close relationship with her mother. YOU NEED TO INTRODUCE THE QUOTE. SEE SIGNAL PHRASES.

SHE DREAMED ABOUT HER MOTHER AND TRIED TO STOP HER FROM GOING. SHE SAID: “I’m never going to see you again, mom. I know it. I just feel it, please let me go in you place. I’ll go.”

Viola Liuzzo was murderED, JUST AS PENNY DREAMED SHE WOULD. One day when she was driving a nineteen year old black man, by the name Leroy Morton, one of the many civil rights marchERS she drove around Selma. When Viola Liuzzo was murder-SEE VERB TENSE it became international news.

Viola was a very hard worker. She was a type of person who would not just stay home and be an ordinary house wife. She wanted to make a difference. THIS IS WHY SHE DECIDED TO VOLUNTEER IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.

The death of Viola Liuzzo had a very big effect on Penny Liuzzo. When Viola Liuzzo died people harassed Penny and her family. People would send THE FAMILY magazines that had pictures of her dead body. Even Penny’s little six year old sister was harassed. When she would walk to school people would throw rocks at her and taunt her. A Couple of years later when Sally and Penny went to go and visit her grave, Sally was so sad she started crying on Penny’s shoulder saying "how did mother sound, I can’t not remember what she was like" (PAGE NUMBER).

The family all tried to move on. One way Penny tried to move on was she decided to get married so her mind could move on, but it DIDN'T help at all. THE MARRIAGE WAS A FAILURE, and still she could not forget her mother.

One WAY Penny was able to overcome the pain was by thinking of her mother’s attitude towards hate. “My mom said the best thing, and I took it to heart: ‘Hate hurts the hater, not the hated. It eats you up. It’s too consuming. It makes you so unhappy” (PAGE NUMBER).

YOU NEED A CONCLUSION. THIS DOESN'T QUITE WRAP THE DISCUSSION. SUGGESTIONS: TALK ABOUT HOW SHE FORGAVE THE MAN WHO KILLED HER, AND HOW MARTIN KING TOLD HER HER MOTHER HADN'T DIED IN VAIN.
 
GOOD WORK ALEX. NOTE COMMENTS. GRADE BEFORE REVISION: 4/5

Alejandro Aguilar
March 19, 2008
10-12
Penny Liuzzo Herrington

3. Talk about the involvement of the FBI in the Viola Liuzzo case. How did the injustice affect the members of Viola Liuzzo’s Family? How did Penny find peace?

Penny Liuzzo Herrington, daughter of Viola Liuzzo, found out one night that her mother was killed by an enraged mob. A car full of Ku Klux Klansmen outside Selma shot her. She was giving a ride to one of the Civil Right Marchers (Leroy Moton) because Viola had volunteered to help in the movement’s car pool system. Luizzo dropped off her passengers in Selma and returned with Moton to Montgomery. There she drove alongside a car filled with four white men, one of the men shot Liuzzo in the head, killing her instantly. GREAT RECAP

Everyone in her family suffered from the tragedy. Her father began to drink excessively, and her daughters were treated like dirt in school. The public did not show any sympathy towards them, instead they left nothing but hate mail. Articles were written calling Viola a deranged communist and asked people to take surveys, fifty-five percent said she brought death on herself.
“It was horrible,” Penny says.

“People sent this magazine that showed her body in the car with the blood and bullet holes. They called her a white whore and a nigger lover, and said that she was having relations with black men” (196). GOOD USE OF TEXT TO SUPORT CLAIM

Later they WHO, THE FAMILY? came to find out that the FBI initiated the attack on Viola, an FBI informant was in the car with then men who killed her. The four Klu Klux Klansmen were arrested, but oddly enough the all white, all male jury did not give adequate sentences. Three only got 10 years in prison and the fourth was granted immunity. The FBI did not stop there they gave false information to the press stating that Liuzzo had mental problems, and that she was having sex with black men.

Penny said her father was eaten away by the criticism, “It took the soul right out of him, he never was the same, and he started drinking a lot” (201). NOTICE HOW I CHANGE YOUR CITATIONS Even after admitting that the FBI shredded 10,000 pages of documents connected to Liuzzo’s murder, the FBI won the case (PAGE NUMBER).

Penny SAID SHE found peace by always thinking positively. Sure she missed her mother, but she never once blamed God “higher power” for what happened (PAGE NUMBER). NOTICE HOW I CHANGED THIS

Penny says, “My mom said the best thing, and I took it to heart: 'Hate hurts the hater, not the hated. It eats you up. It is too consuming. It makes you so unhappy. “(Pg 205)FIX CITATION Because of what she remembers about her mother, and after the birth of her sons, she was able to find peace with herself. She found something else to live for (PAGE NUMBER).
 
HI EWA, READ MY COMMENTS AND NOTICE HOW I ALTERED THE ORIGINAL. YOU NEED TO REFERENCE DIANA HACKER WHERE INDICATED. YOUR GRADE BEFORE REVISIONS IS 3/4. YOU ALSO NEED TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT TAKING THE AUTHOR'S LANGUAGE AND USING IT AS YOUR OWN. USE DIFFERENT LANGUAGE WHEN PARAPHASING AND SUMMARIZING.

GOOD WORK!

Ewa Dobrzynska
English 201
March 19, 2008

1. Who is Penny Luizzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death on her life?

Penny Luizzo Herrington is the eldest child of Viola. WHO IS SPEAKING OR WHO ARE YOU QUOTING? YOU COULD WRITE: SHE WAS KNOWN AS A "WARM AND OPEN WOMAN WHO LOVE[D] TO LAUGH" (PAGE NUMBER). “She is a warm and open woman who loves to laugh. It’s odd to connect tragedies with such a cheerful woman. Viola was shot to death by a car full of Ku Klux Klansmen during Civil Right Movement. “She was murdered while giving a right to 19 years old black man, Leroy Moton, one of many civil rights marchers she drove around Selma.

Penny Liuzzo did not want her mother to go to Selma. She knew she would loose--WRONG WORD her mother. Viola’s murder becomes international news. After what happened TO HER people disrespect--VERB TENSE Viola’s determination to help marchers in Selma. People burned crosses in front her FAMILY'S house. THEY ALSO SPREAD stories that Viola had sex with black man, called her whore and nigger lover (PAGE NUMBER).

This situation had a huge impact on Penny Luizzo’s life and THE lives of her family. Sally, Penny’s six-year-old sister suffered from THE (SEE HACKER "THE, A, AN") public’s wrath (PAGE NUMBER). Children threw rocks at her when she went to school. After the murder COMMA PENNY SAYS HER family was even more devastated by public ABUSE.

Penny’s father never recovered and her sisters and brothers suffered AFTER they lost THEIR beloved mom. PENNY SAID, "My heart just broke when Sally was eleven years old and we went to visit my mom’s grave and she just sobbed on my shoulder, ’Please, tell me what she was like. I don’t remember. I can’t remember her voice”(197).

Penny’s father was eaten UP by whole situation. He started drink a lot and died. Penny's brothers dropped out high school. Penny admits that her mother’s death made her pessimistic, but with time she started live again. She forgave her mom’s killer and she becomes appreciate her own life. She is proud of her mother and active life (PAGE NUMBER).

“Over the years," CLOSE THE QUOTE. SEE HACKER Penny’s says, "she found herself dreaming about her mother. She misses her spark and energy." "Sometimes when I ’m feeling blue, SHE SAID, "I wish I could call my mother up” (204).

It took long time before Penny and her family could live normal lives. It is hard when you have to live with lies ABOUT SOMEONE YOU LOVE. Penny realize--VERB TENSE that she COULD NOT be bitter all her life, because she has to be an example for her children. She needed to grown up. She suffered but “[e]verybody lives with their own torture. She didn’t hesitate because she’s now found something else to live for-her sons. Penny says she doesn’t want to hurt anymore. So she’s chosen to be grateful, no bitter. It’s her mother would have wanted. ‘I really have a good live. I’m not the richest person in the world. But I have people who love me and adore me. …I would never come up with the gift [God] gave me’”(205). IS ALL THIS A QUOTE?

PENNY LEARNED THAT SHE COULD NOT (can not)be bitter for all HER life, NONE OF US CAN AFFORD TO DO SO. Sometimes we need to accept the facts, FORGIVE AND MOVE ON. PENNY MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO FORGET HER MOTHER'S MURDER, BUT SHE CAN MOVE ON. Even POPE John Paul II forgave the person who wanted to kill him. PENNY'S MOTHER WOULD HAVE WANTED HER TO DO THIS, AS WELL AS FOLLOW HER EXAMPLE AND NOT BE AFRAID TO FOLLOW HER HEART.
 
THIS IS TOO CLOSE TO THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORIGINAL ESSAY. REWRITE THOSE PARTS IN YOUR OWN WORDS. ALSO READ ALOUD AND CHECK YOUR SPELLING.

WHERE YOU REFERENCE THE TEXT, PUT THE PAGE NUMBER AT THE END OF TEH SENTENCE. YOU HAVE A GOOD OUTLINE. WHAT IS THE THESIS? YOUR GRADE BEFORE REVISION IS NO CREDIT OR NC

Raymond Wong
10-12
201AB

2. Describe Viola Liuzzo and the type of person she was. In reading the story, do you think her participation in the Civil Rights Movement was unexpected?

Viola Liuzzo was part of the civil rights movement. She was CHAUFFEURING demonstrators in Selma, Alabama TO AND from marches and demonstrations. Viola was murdered one night when she was driving home a nineteen-year-old black man named Leroy Moton. Her daughter, Penny Liuzzo had a feeling something was going to happen to her mom if she went to Selma, but Viola was determineD to help people in the civil rights movement (PAGE NUMBER). After she (WHO?) saw on the news of people being beaten up she said, “I’m tired of sitting here watching people get beat up” before heading to Selma to work on the movement
(195).

Viola Liuzzo was a selfless person who cared about everyone around her more then herself, so being of the movement was not a shock TO HER FAMILY (YOU NEED TO REWRITE THIS IN YOUR OWN WORDS). Liuzzo once gave her entire paycheck to a person who was laid-off without severance pay (SOUNDS LIKE A QUOTE). She was a person who always kept working to help people, according to Mary Stanton, the author of Viola Liuzzo biography said:

She was intrigued by Liuzzo’s refusal to play the part of the submissive housewife. While her neighbors were taking cooking classes or doing church volunteer work, Liuzzo was preparing for a career, crusading for workplace rights, and going back to college. (198)

She was going to help the movement and nobody could stop her, even a premonition from her daughter that something bad was going to happen did not stop her from going to help the cause. (GOOD, KEEP THIS.)

After arriving in Selma, she joined the movement’s transportation committee, who drove rights marcher around. On the last day of the five-day march, she was driving marchers from Montgomery to Selma; four Klu Klux Klan members killed her along the highway. According to the police report, she died instantly due to a shot to the head. She knew the dangers of being in the march, but wanted to do it anyway to make a difference in the world. Viola was a saint even before movement; she always loved helping people so being part of the civil rights movement was unsurprisingly. THIS IS GOOD. KEEP ALL OF IT THAT IS YOURS :-)
 
CHECK ALL YOUR CITATIONS AND DISCOURSE. YOU BORROW HEAVILY FROM THE TEXT. YOU NEED TO USE YOUR OWN WORDS. THERE IS NOT THESIS. REVISE. YOUR GRADE IS A NC OR NO CREDIT.

Carmen Truong
Sabir 10-12

1. Who is Penny Luizzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death on her life?

Penny Luizzo Herrington is the daughter of Viola Liuzzo, “a warm and open woman who loves to laugh” (PAGE NUMBER). PENNY married twice before just like her mother did. Penny was close with her mother, SO CLOSE THEY also became like friends. She went through a sad moment with her family when her mother left to Selma and was murdered by a man named Eugene Thomas.

One day, Viola Liuzzo called home and told her family that she was leaving to Selma,(SEE COMMA SPLICE IN HACKER) Penny was sad AT THE unexpected ANNOUNCEMENT. Penny was young at the time and askED SEE VERB TENSE her mother if she could leave with her, her mother “laughed off her daughters fear” (PAGE NUMBER).

NOT MANY WEEKS LATER, a call came at midnight; Penny'S (SEE POSSESIVES) father answers VERB TENSE the phone and said, “Penny, your mom is dead.”

PENNY SAID Everything seemED to change SEE VERB TENSE AFTER HER MOTHER WAS MURDERED WHILE PARTICIPATING IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. Because she was helping black people, readers from "THE Ladies Home Journal" magazine asked "what kind of woman WOULD actually leave her family behind for a civil rights demonstration (PAGE NUMBER)?

The magazine also stated that “she was having relationships with black men, and they called her white whore and a nigger lover” (PAGE NUMBER). The family was going through rough times, COMMA SPLICE Penny was sad over the years trying to know what exactly happened to her mother, and her dad drink--VERB TENSE a lot and even in school students would throw rocks at PENNY'S YOUNGER SISTER Sally.

Although Penny doesn’t agree with her mother leaving them, 40 years later, she felt--VERB TENSE very strongly about HOW her mother gave her life FOR HER country to help the civil rights movement. Penny said her mother is--VERB TENSE very brave and THAT SHE wants--VERB TENSE to be like her mom. After Penny MET the murderER of her mother she forgave him. She doesn’t want to be hurt again and just wanted to live happily.

SHE SAID, “She didn’t hesitate TO FORGIVE THIS MAN, because she’s now found something else to live for –her sons" (PAGE NUMBER). Penny says she doesn’t want to hurt anymore, so she’s chosen to be grateful, not bitter (PAGE NUMBER). It’s what her mother would have wanted.

“I really have a good life. I’m not the richest person in the world. But I have people who love and adore me” (PAGE NUMBER AND SIGNAL PHRASE).

Penny is finally letting go her mother’s death and be a better person to survive happily with her children (SOUNDS LIKE IT CAME STRAIGHT FROM THE TEXT. REWRITE.)
 
VERY NICE. NOTE THE COMMENTS AND DO WORK IN HACKER ON SV AGR, VERB TENSE, SENTENCE FRAGMENTS, KNOWN ALSO AS COMMA SPLICES AND RUN-ON SENTENCES, ALSO KNOWN AS FUSED SENTENCES.

GRADE BEFORE REVISION IS 3/4.

Theresa Smith
English 201A
March 19, 2008

Penny Liuzzo Herrington
Daughter of Viola Liuzzo

This essay was about a family that was torn because of the civilS rights movement. It was about a white woman who was not frightened to make any decisions. Her name was Viola Liuzzo, COMMA SPLICE she was a college graduate who had a very good supportive family. Viola was married she had four children Penny, Anthony Jr., Sally, AND Anthony Sr. who loved her very much and would miss her iF she left. “Penny admits that her mother’s death made her pessimistic about her own future (PAGE NUMBER). SHE SAID: “I prayed every night, ‘God, don’t take me away from my kids. Don’t let me die until my kids are older” (PAGE NUMBER).

This one particular day Viola haD VERB TENSE been watching television, THERE WAS COVERAGE OF the civil right movement. SHE SAW several sceneS of obscene behavior and brutality toward black people. Viola got feed-VERB TENSE up (FUSED SENTENCE. YOU NEED TO SEPARATE THESE TWO CLAUSES INTO SEPARATE SENTENCES) she told her family the she could not take it anymore (FUSED SENTENCE) she was going to Selma.

Leaving her family in distress COMMA Viola called up her daughter and told her she was leaving. Penny “tried to talk her mother out of going " (PAGE NUMBER). SHE SAID, "I’m never going to see you again, Mom. I know it. I just fill FEEL it. Please let me go in your place. I’ll go. Viola refused to listen and that was the last time Penny spoke to her mother" (195).

When Penny’s mother died it caused mental pain for the family. Viola made headline news, COMMA SPLICE everybody was speaking bad about Viola FUSED SENTENCE if they was-VERB TENSE not badgering her, they were messing with her child (SALLY) trying to hurt her by following HER home and throwing rocks at her (197).

Viola hurt her family dearly WHEN SHE LEFT. Her husband never recovered from the derogatory statements that were being made on (use ABOUT) (SEE PREPOSITIONS) his wife or HER brutal murder. SHE WAS KILLED WHILE RETURNING FROM giving the young black man Moton a ride HOME FROM A CIVIL RIGHTS MEETING.

“Hoover began telling President Johnson that Liuzzo was having sex with black men, was a drug addict, organized crime. The FBI then leaked this misinformation to the press, which soon began writing stories questioning Liuzzo found him self defending his wife character before news reporter. The Luizzo family would only discover what the FBI had done years later, after obtaining documents under the freedom of Information Act” (201).

Anthony Jr. tried to sue the court for wrongful death WHEN HE FOUND OUT THE FBI AND KKK WERE RESPONSIBLE. THE COURT threw his case out AND forcED HIS FAMILY TO pay $80,000 in court cause COSTS. Anthony was upset with the OUTCOME of the case and chose just to leave it alone but knew in his heart he had to forgive the white men who killed his mother so that he would be able to move on with his life.

Anthony said, "I forgave the men" (PAGE NUMBER). He has forgiven all four of the killers. “Yahweh has a plan for me," HE SAID TO A REPORTER, THEN ADDED, “I am not bitter… I am doing my mothers work" (205).

Penny never got over her mother’s murder FUSED SENTENCE it haunted her for years FUSED SENTENCE she had began to forgive the four white MEN WHO was--SV AGR involved in the killing FUSED SENTENCE she fills FEELS time and their own demons would kill them.

Penny TOLD JOHN BLAKE, AUTHOR OF CM, THAT SHE AND HER SISTER HAS bad marriages (PAGE NUMBER). Penny SAID both SHE AND HER SISTER married toO quickly TO TAKE their mindS off the loss of their mother (PAGE NUMBER). Penny HOPES SV AGR that she will never go through that situation ever again. She does remember her mother and what she used to say. PENNY SAID, "My mom said the best thing, and I took it to heart: 'Hate hurts the hater, not the hated. It eats you up. It’s to consuming. It makes you unhappy' [205].
 
NOTICE MY COMMENTS ERIK. LEAVE YOURSELF OUT OF TEH ESSAY. I DELETED ALL THE PERSONAL REFERENCES "I", "ME." REVISE, AND RESUBMIT. YOUR GRADE BEFORE REVISIONS IS A 3/4. GOOD WORK. WATCH THE USE OF THE AUTHOR'S WORDS. A PARAPHRASE AND A SUMMARY USE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE.

YOUR OUTLINE AND PLANNING SHEET ARE GREAT ALSO. IN THE QUESTION ABOUT PURPOSE, LOOK AT THE BACK OF THE PLANNING SHEET FOR SUGGESTIONS OF HOW TO ANSWER THE QUESTION.

Erik Del Nero 3/19/08
English 201 B
Mid Term Essay

Who is Penny Luizzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death on her life?

There VIOLA LIUZZO'S MURDER was a huge impact on her DAUGHTER PENNY'S life. I mean the death of your Mom, IS SERIOUS. Since her mother'S death, PENNY SAID her family slowly started to fall apart piece by piece.

AFTER Penny’s mom told her that she was going to Selma Penny knew at that point she was never going to see her mom again, and sadly enough she was right. Not long after her mom left they got a phone call and her dad answered and HE said to Penny, "your mother’s dead" (PAGE NUMBER). The death of Viola Liuzzo was one of the most shocking moments in the Civil Rights Movement.

Penny’s six year old sister could not escape the family drama either. While attending school the other students would taunt and throw rocks at her ARE YOU QUOTING? (PAGE NUMBER).

Since Penny is the oldest, she is the only one who has the best MEMORY of what HER SIBLING'S mother was like. Today Penny is a mom herself. She has a total of four children and they are all boys.

Penny says SHE'D “just graduated high school and [SHE AND HER MOM] had just become friends” (PAGE NUMBER).

VIOLA Liuzzo was shot in the head and died instantly. The people who killed her were four members of the Ku Klux Klan: Eugene Thomas, William Eaton, Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr. and Thomas Rowe Jr. A few years later Penny and her family tried FILE a lawsuit against the FBI for unfair treatment, but lost and had to pay the court fee.

Penny and her family did everything they could do TO GET JUSTICE FOR their mother. To losE your mother must be one of the hardest things you will ever have to go through. I don’t think I would handle it well at all because mom is extreme special to me. There is nothing like a mother's love.


Outline:
• What Question do you want your research paper to answer? Who is Penny Luizzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death on her life?
• Family problem after mother’s death.
• Penny and Viola relationship
• What I thought

Planning sheet:
1. What is the subject of your paper? Penny Liuzzo Harrington
2. Why do you want to write about this subject? I was told to.
3. What audience will you write for? ( Your audience will determine whether you need to technical or broad based information from your sources.) The people I am writing for are the student at COA.
4. What Question do you want your research paper to answer? Who is Penny Liuzzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death on her life?
5. What is the main writing strategy you think you will use? ( Description, process or causal analysis, compare/ contrast, Problem/ solution, classification, or argument are some possibilities.) I will probably use description.
 
YOU NEED TO REWRITE THIS ESSAY IN YOUR OWN WORDS. THIS IS NOT YOUR WORDS. IT IS JOHN BLAKES. NO CREDIT.

Koung Chaiyasane
201A 10-12
3/19/08

3. Talk about the involvement of the FBI in the Viola Liuzzo case. How did the injustice affect the members of Viola Liuzzo's family? How did Penny find peace?

The FBI went after VIOLA Liuzzo’s reputation. Stanton (WHO IS THIS PERSON?) says they tried to cover up for the fact that their informant in the car did nothing to prevent Liuzzo’s murder. Hoover (WHO IS HE?) began telling President Johnson that Liuzzo was having sex with black men, was a drug addict, and had a husband who was involved in organized crime (ARE YOU QUOTING?). The FBI leaked this misinformation to the press, which soon began writing stories questioning Liuzzo’s mental health (she had once suffered a nervous breakdown) and her morality (201).

Anthony Liuzzo Jr., the eldest son of Viola Liuzzo, filed a $2 million lawsuit against the FBI on behalf of himself and his siblings for the agency’s complicity in his mother’s death (SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE QUOTING, NOT PARAPHRASING). During the trial, the FBI admitted that it had shredded 10,000 pages of documents connected to Liuzzo’s murder. Still, the FBI won. In 1983 a federal judge threw out the lawsuit and ordered the family to pay the government $80,000 in court costs. The judge later changed that demand after the television show 20/20 did a report on the trial and people became outraged at the judge’s order. (202)THIS IS VERBATIM FROM THE BOOK.

Penny was able to overcome bitterness, she was thinking of her mother’s attitude toward hate. Penny said “her mom said the best thing is to take it in to heart: “Hate hurts the hater, not the hated. It eats you up. It’s too consuming. It makes you so unhappy.’” (205)

Even if the answer to the case will be different, from what you think it should be, it doesn’t matter if you know the answer to forgive. In Penny Liuzzo Herrington Daughter of Viola Liuzzo story, Penny know how to forgive in the ending, how her around, would make her think back to her mother words, best thing is to take it to heart.
 
TJ, THE PLANNING SHEET IS GREAT. WHERE IS THE ESSAY?
 
Michael Tran
class afternoon 1pm-3pm
march 19 2008

3. Talk about the involvement of the FBI in the Viola Liuzzo case. How did the injustice affect the members of Viola Liuzzo's family? How did Penny find peace?

REWRITE THE INTRODUCTION. PENNY IS THE DAUGHTER, VIOLA IS THE MOTHER. YOU NEED TO TELL THE AUDIENCE WHAT
MIKE TRAN:

THE ESSAY IS ABOUT, THEN END THE
INTRODUCTION WITH A THESIS. WAS THE FBI RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SUFFERING OF VIOLA'S FAMILY? WERE THEY RESPONSIBLE FOR HER DEATH, OR IF NOT COMPLETELY RESPONSIBLE, COULD THEY AHVE PREVENTED IT?

YOU ALSO NEED AN OUTLINE. THIS ESSAY IS NOT WELL-STRUCTURED. REVISE IT. PRESENTLY, YOUR GRADE IS NC OR NO CREDIT.
 
Yun Hee Yi

DEVELOP AN OUTLINE FROM YOUR PLAN. REWRITE THIS ESSAY AND ANSWER THE QUESTION. YOU JUST COPY FROM THE ESSAY. NO CREDIT.
 
YOU ARE USING JOHN BLAKE'S WRITING AS YOUR OWN. REWRITE IN YOUR OWN WORDS. ALSO, YOU NEED TO WORK ON VERB TENSE AGREEMENT AND SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT.

THE PLANNING SHEET IS GOOD. DEVELOP AN OUTLINE AND AS I SAID. ANSWER THE QUESTION IN YOUR OWN WORDS. WRITE THE COMPLETE ESSAY OUT AND THEN GO BACK AND ADD CITATIONS: PARAPHRASE, BLOCK QUOTES, DIRECT QUOTE.

NO CREDIT.

Irene Nu
1-3
201b


Planning Sheet:

What is the subject of your paper?
The subject of my paper is Penny Luizzo Herrington and the impact of her mother

Why do you want to write about this subject?

I want to write about this subject because I feel that is it important for audienceS TODAY to know who are Penny Luizzo Herrington and the impact of her mother ON THEIR LIVES NOW (?)

What audience will write for? (Your audience will determine whether you need technical or broad-based information from your sources.)
My audience will be College of alameda students

What question do you want your research paper to answer?
I want my research paper to answer who Penny Luizzo Herrington is and the impact of her mother

What is the main strategy you think you will use? (Description, process or causal analysis, compare/contrast, problem/ solution, classification, or arguments are some possibilities)


Penny Luizzo Herrington is daughter of Viola Liuzzo. Penny and her mother were like friends after Penny graduated from high school. OF ALL HER SIBLINGS, Penny (were one of)IS the child who HAS(have) abundant (of) memories of her mother because she was the eldest child and she spent the most time with her.(, out of all her Childs.)

Viola Liuzzo was ambushed and shot to death by KKK men because she was helping the civil rightS marchers.

Viola Liuzzo helped the civil rights marchers because she saw them getting beaten up on newsreel footage. “I’m tired of sitting here watching people get beat up,” SHE SAID (195). When viola told her family that she (were) WAS going to Selma to help the civil rights marcherS, her daughter penny tried to stop(ped) her but she just laughed her daughters tears off. YOU ARE QUOTING Viola (were) shot and ambushed (to death) by some Ku Klux Klan men while giving a ride to a 19 year old black man who is a civil rights marcher. Liuzzo death became international news, her pictures that showed her body in the car with the blood and bullet holes were showed on magazines. After her murdered penny’s home were filled hate mail, accusing her mother to be deranged communist and crosses were burn outside her house. “The lost of her mother and the public backlash shattered penny’s family. Her father never recovered, her sisters and brothers struggled” (197). “The FBI tried to cover up for the fact that their information in the car did nothing to prevent liuzzo’s murder. Hoover began telling the president Johnson that liuzzo were having sex with black men, was a drug addict, and had a husband who was involved in organized crime”(201). Penny’s father started drinking a lot and students would throw rocks at viola youngest child Sally when she walks to school.

Their family tried to fight the case with the FBI but at the end they lost. “Anthony Liuzzo jr. were filed $2 million dollars lawsuit against the FBI on behalf of himself and his sibling for the agency’s complicity in his mother’s death” (202). Bitterness was held in Penny all these years, but later she overcome bitterness was thinking of what her mother have done and her attitude towards hate have done to her. Penny learns that being biter was not what her mother death wants her to learn. Penny soon realized how can she be a good mom and be hateful, parents were suppose to be role models for their kids. She now has something to live for after accepting the apology from Thomas one of the KKK men who killed her mother viola, her son. She will live happily because she has people who love and adore her, she will live for her sons.
 
Jessica Ramos
1-3

Planning Sheet:
1.What is the subject of your paper?
Penny Liuzzo
2.Why do you want to write about this subject?
To learn more about Penny Liuzzo.
3.What audience will you write for?
Students who don’t know who Penny Liuzzo is.
4.What question do you want your research paper to answer?
Who is Penny Liuzzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother,Viola Liuzzo’s death on her life?
5.What is the main writing strategy you think you will use?
Describe who Penny Liuzzo is.



Outline:
Penny Liuzzo was Viola’s eldest daughters; she was very close to her mother and because of this her mother’s death had a lot of impact on her.
Penny’s relationship with her mother
Penny’s impact of her mother’s death
Penny’s life changed a lot after her mother’s death. She had four siblings and they all suffered a lot because is very hard to overcome the death of a mother.



1.Who is Penny Liuzzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death on her life?



Viola Liuzzo was a woman who died for helping other people. She was involved in the civil rights movement carpool system. She got killed while she was giving a ride to a black man. Viola’s death was very devastating and it got her family very hurt.

Viola left behind five children including Penny Liuzzo Herrington and her husband. They all struggled and Penny’s father never recovered. It was very hard for them to know that Viola had been killed just because she was helping other people out. Penny Liuzzo was Viola’s oldest daughters and she was very close to her mother and because of this, her mother’s death had a lot of impact on her.

Viola’s daughter, Penny, was the one she spent most of the time with, they were both very close (198). When Penny’s mother died she was young and it was very hard for her to experience the death of her mother. “By 1965 [the year that Viola died], Penny was becoming closer to her mom after some stormy adolescent years” (199). NICE SUPPORT

When you are very close to someone and then that person leaves it’s very hard to get the whole idea that they won’t be there anymore by your side and it’s extremely harder if this person is one of your parents. Penny was so close to her mother that when her she died “a wave of nausea suddenly swept over her. In an instant, she knew what had happened. ‘Oh my God,’ she thought…‘my mom’s dead’” (195).

Penny had some feelings that something bad was going to happen to her mom while she was on her trip, Penny “tried to persuade her mother not to go, telling her that she would die” (199). But Penny’s mom didn’t pay any attention to this and she just left. When Penny heard the news that her mom was dead she got very sad, the whole family was just not feeling the same anymore, and they couldn’t overcome Viola’s death. “After her mother’s death, Penny, too, felt as if she were being dragged into despair with the rest of her family” (203). The death of Viola was very hard for all of them, especially Viola’s husband, WHO never recovered. The death of Penny’s mother made her very sad but it also made her get angry. “‘[PENNY] was angry at the government. She was angry at the KKK’” (204). Penny was mad at them because they were responsible for her mother’s death. Penny’s life wasn’t the same after her mother’s death. Penny had four siblings WHO all suffered a lot and had a very hard time to overcome the death of their mother.

NOTE THE IN-TEXT COMMENTS AND THE EDITS.

TALK MORE SPECIFICALLY IN YOUR CONCLUSION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO PENNY'S SIBLINGS. AS IT STANDS, THIS CONCLUSION IS REDUNDANT.

GRADE: 4. THE PAPER IS WELL ORGANIZED AND WELL-WRITTEN. THE OUTLINE AND PLANNING SHEET ARE ALSO GOOD.
 
YOUR OUTLINE IS GOOD AND PLANNING SHEET ARE GOOD. GREAT ESSAY. NOTE THE COMMENTS AND NEXT TIME PROOF READ THE ESSAY WITH AN EYE OUT FOR WRONG WORDS, POSSESSIVES, AND VERB TENSE.

GRADE BEFORE REVISIONS: 4/5

Chesi Brown
English 201B
Instructor Ms.Sabir
March 19, 2008


Penny Luizzo Herrington

Penny Luizzo Herrington is a woman who has learned to forgive and love again after HER mother, Viola Luizzo’s death in Selma in 1965. PENNY'S MOTHER WAS a transporter for marcherS in the civil rightS movement. SHE WAS killed WHILE driving a black passenger home.

Viola was a white women and a mother on her way to Wayne State University WHEN SHE HEARD Martin Luther King Jr. speak. She was so motivated by the speech she (new) KNEW she wanted to be a part of the movement. She soon volunteered to help the transportation committee. This position MEANT SHE'D transport civil rightS marchers around (black or whites) in Selma. On the fifth day of VOLUNTEERING, WHILE Viola was giving a black passenger a ride home, she was killed.

President Johnson LATER announced that four white men who were members of the “KKK” were being convicted of the crime. PENNY'S FAMILY FOUND OUT LATER THAT THE FBI WERE ALSO INVOLVED IN HER MOTHER'S DEATH, that the FBI initiated the hit (PAGE NUMBER).

Penny is now fifty-five yearS old; SHE'S a mother of four boys, and is now A bitter-free women after letting go of her mother unjustified death. She has learned to forgive and let go of thingS she has (know) NO control over. Viola'S POSSESSIVE death has made Penny realized VERB TENSE that you can’t live with hate in your heart. START A NEW SENTENCE It IS not healthy COMMA especially if you have kids. Penny has learned to except that thing happen for reason. She has notice that her mother death has made her stronger, and a better mother. Penny states:

She doesn’t want to hurt anymore. So she’s chosen to be grateful, not bitter. It’s what her mother would have wanted. “I really have a good life. I’m not the richest person in the world. But I have people who I love and adore me. All four of my boys, I never had a major problem with my kids”(205). NICE SUPPORT FROM THE TEXT

Penny is a casualty of war and a perfect example of survivor. She has learned to love again, even those who have hurt her the most. Penny is a believer and has grown to forgive. Thomas Rowe Jr., one of the murderers, who she seen VERB TENSE for the first time in 1975, while attending court for a law suit that way WAS filed by Penny’s family in WITH regards of TO (SEE PREPOSITIONS, IDIOMS) the death of her mother. Has AS he exited the building COMMA he asks VERB TENSE Penny to forgive him? WHY THE QUESTION MARK Everyone was shockED BY at Penny’s response, people couldn’t understand why she responded the way she did. She told them, “she actually felt sorry for Thomas. SHE SAID, “Everybody lives with their own torture”(205).
 
JAVIER, THIS ESSAY IS EXCELLENT! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK. YOUR STRUCTURE IS FLAWLESS, THE EVIDENCE YOU USE TO SUPPORT YOUR CLAIMS FROM THE TEXT IS ALSO WELL DONE.

NOTE THE IN-TEXT COMMENTS. GRADE BEFORE REVISION: 5/6.

Javier Chavez
English 201 B 1-3

3. Talk about the involvement of the FBI in the Viola Liuzzo case. How did the injustice affect the members of Viola Liuzzo's family? How did Penny find peace?


Viola Liuzzo was a big supporter of the civil rights movement. She was not the kind of woman to be sitting at home saying “Oh my that’s horrible what happening down there!” She is the type of woman that would actively engage in things that interested her and she felt worth fighting for. On March 26, 1965 Viola Liuzzo was murdered. She was shot to death in her car by four members from the Klu Klux Klan. She was trying to help out the civil rights marchers by carpooling. What WAS even worse was that the FBI was involved with her death. The FBI was mostly to blame for the pain and suffering that the Liuzzo family went through.

After Viola’s death, there was a public backlash. There was a women’s magazine who said that Viola “brought the death on herself by leaving home-and fifty-five percent of its readers agreed”(196). The FBI was involved with the public backlash. They released her psychiatric records and said that she was promiscuous. Thomas Rowe Jr. was the FBI informant who took part in the death of Viola. After the four men were arrested they had one unsuccessful trial, but then the trial was moved to a different jurisdiction and the men were tried under different charges. Three of the men were sent to ten years in prison but Rowe was granted immunity. The FBI also leaked false information from Hoover about Viola and her husband. The FBI made it incredibly difficult for Viola’s family to continue to live a normal life: IS THIS A BLOCK QUOTE?

The effect on the other family members also was devastating. Penny had two bad marriages: so did Sally. Penny says both married too quickly as a way of taking their minds off the loss of their mother. Sally was hit particularly hard by the death of her mother and, later her father. “Sally has just got a grip on her life and she’s in her forties.” Penny says. “She was an orphan at twenty” (202).

THE MURDERED WOMAN, OR VIOLA LIUZZO'S two sons were also hit hard by the FBI’s involvement. Anthony Liuzzo Jr. tried to sue the FBI for two million dollars and although the FBI admitted that they shredded 10,000 pages of documents connected with Viola’s murder, the FBI still won. The government made the Liuzzo family pay $80,000 dollars in court costS. Anthony Liuzzo Jr. now lives underground in the backwoods of Michigan. He has a deep distrust of the government. (202-203).

After all horrible things that happened to Penny and her family she was still able to find peace. She found it in her heart to forgive one of the men involved with Viola’s death, Thomas Rowe Jr., IN A face to face MEETING. Penny did not want to live her life full of hate and pain. She decided to fill her heart with happiness and the love of those around her. She said that she didn’t want to be a mom who is hateful. Penny said “My mom said the best thing, and I took it to heart: ‘Hate hurts the hater not the hated...’(205).

THE PUNCUATION IS AFTER THE PARENTHESES.
 
YOU NEED A BETTER CONCLUDING SENTENCE. THE ESSAY IS GOOD, EXCEPT IN THE PLACES WHERE YOU BORROW FROM JOHN BLAKE AND DON'T GIVE HIM CREDIT :-)

LOOK AT THE COMMENTS AND REVISE. BEFORE CORRECTIONS THE GRADE IS A 3/4. NICE OUTLINE AND PLAN.

Lewis Holman
1-3
eng 201B

planning sheet

1.What is the subject of your paper?
Who is Penny Liuzzo Herrington and what was the impact on her from her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death.

2.Why do you want to write about this subject?
I want to write about this subject because I haven’t heard of something like this happening to a family.

3.What audience will you write for?
I am writing to COA students who might not know anything about the CRM and how people were willing to die for their right to be equal. NICE ANSWER

4.What question do you want your research paper to answer?
Who is Penny Liuzzo Herrington and what was the impact on her from her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death.

5.What main writing strategy you think you will use?
I will describe the situation to the reader, classify certain arguments made by the Liuzzo family and possibly arguments that I have.


1.Who is Penny Liuzzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother’s, Viola Liuzzo death on her life?

Penny Liuzzo is one of the eldest of 5 siblings and the daughter of Viola Liuzzo. Her mother, Viola Liuzzo, was killed for being involved with the civil rights movement. The death of her mother has shattered Penny and her family, (COMMA SPLICE. USE A PERIOD) NEW SENTENCE--most of them couldn’t recover from such a loss. Before Viola left (to) FOR Selma Penny asked her not to go because Penny knew that her mother was going to die, but Viola laughed it off and a predicted fear came true.

Viola Liuzzo was a white woman from the north who didn’t really care about skin color. She went to Selma to-DELETE originally TO take some classes at Wayne State University for fashion DESIGN, and she soon ended up involving herself in the movement's SEE POSSESSIVE transportation committee, ferrying marchers around Selma (IS THIS A QUOTE?).

When other white people saw her driving around black men in the south, they felt betrayed by her. One night while on the side of the road, four KKK members shot and killed her. The death of Viola Liuzzo was harsh YOU MEAN "HARD" on her family. People criticized and shut them away from the community because of her activism in the movement. The four KKK members were put in jail and sentenced to only 3 years; it wasn’t until later that the family found out that one of the shooters worked for the FBI, which the government tried to cover up.

VIOLA'S HUSBAND, “Anthony Liuzzo found himself defending his wife’s character before newspaper reporter” (CM 201). GOOD CITATION Anthony Liuzzo TRIED TO DEFEND HIS WIFE'S CHARACTER FROM the lies that the media’s portrayed, but HE LOST AND FELT LIKE A FAILURE AFTER THE FAMILY KEPT LOSING case after case. He died in 1978, leaving behind his five kids.

In 1983, a federal judge ordered the family to pay the government $80,000 in court costs, but the court dropped the charge when the T.V. show 20/20 reported the story. This whole controversy changed Penny’s view of the government. She no longer viewed them as heroes. Her brothers also developed a deep distrust for the federal government after learning about the FBI’s role in their mother’s death. THIS IS A QUOTE--WATCH IT! REVISE LEWIS.

ALTHOUGH the death of Viola Liuzzo, REMAINS UNRESOLVED FOR HER FAMILY, in the end they all found peace as they grew older because that’s what their mother would’ve wanted for them. They no longer felt hatred towardS the men (that) WHO (FOR PEOPLE) killed their mother; they felt sorry for them. They no longer wanted to live in anger, but in peace, so they (choose) CHOSE to be grateful for life, hoping that one day they would see their kids grow old.
 
THIS ISN’T FINISHED. GREAT START THOUGH. YOU HAD A LOT OF GRAMATICAL ERRORS YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO CATCH, LIKE SENTENCE FRAGMENTS. GRADE POTENTIAL, 4, MAYBE HIGHER.


Kenyatta Roberson
3-19-08
Eng.201b

Question 2: Describe Viola Liuzzo and the type of person she was. In reading the story do you think her participation in the Civil Rights Movement was unexpected?

This story is about Penny Liuzzo Herrington the daughter of Viola Liuzzo. Liuzzo was a white a woman who told her family that she was leaving FOR (SEE PREPOSITIONS) Selma to volunteer as a driver IN the Civil Rights Movement’s car pool system, soon after arriving in the small Alabama town. (I CHANGED THE comma to a PERIOD. SEE SENTENCE FRAGMENT) Viola was a courageous person who was tired of hearing about all of the negative effects of racial discrimination against blacks. Therefore, she decided to leave her home town in order to take her heroic position in changing the UNCONSTITUTIONAL laws THAT UPHELD THE SEPARATE BUT UNEQUAL STATUES IN THE SOUTH.

Viola didn’t like the way black people where getting treated in the south. “My mom said the best thing, and I took it to heart: ‘Hate hurts the hater, not the hated. It eats you up. It’s too consuming. It makes you so unhappy’” (pg 205 par.1) NICE USE OF QUOTE. VIOLA didn’t like what was going on at the time in the south, so she volunteered in the Civil Rights Movement for peace. IS CRM A PROPER NOUN? The civil rights movement was indeed unexpected in the eyes of her family, due to the fact that She had not informed them of what she was going to do, until the morning before she was scheduled to leave her home town of Selma. (SEE SENTENCE FRAGMENTS. I JOINED THE LAST 2 SENTENCES)

Deep down in her heart, I believe that she just wanted piece—WRONG WORD and felt that blacks and whites were just as entitled to their share of equal rights. GOOD POINT Viola was a woman that stood up for minorities when none of the other white people would. In Liuzzo’s eyes that was an injustice that had to be corrected. She was brutally murdered by government officials for righting a wrong that was not supposed to be reconciled, (ANOTHER SENTENCE FRAGMENT)Then her Children were subjected to the ignorance these people caused. Her daughter, Penny said, I’m never going to see you again, mom. I know it. I just feel it. Please let me go in your place. I’ll go.” (195 par. 2)
 
NOTE THE COMMENTS.

Ammnah Babikir
3-19-08
Eng.201b

Question 3: Talk about the involvement of the FBI in Viola Liuzzo’s family? How did Penny find peace?

The FBI ruined Liuzzo’s reputation by attempting to cover up the murder. The FBI did not include the fact that one of their informants was in the car with the other four white suspects that shot her in the head and killed her instantly, according to the police report. J. Hoover began telling President Johnson that Liuzzo was having sex with black men, accusing her of being a drug addict, and HAVING a husband who was involved in organized crime. Then the FBI WENT further BY FEEDING this misinformation to the press. OTHER REMARKS AGAINST VIOLA’S CHARACTER questionED her mental health and her morality. This was a case of racism, sexism, and conspiracy.

Anthony Liuzzo Sr., Luizzo’s late husband was seen as a failure who could not keep his woman in check. THIS IS STRAIGHT FROM THE BOOK. THE ENTIRE PARAGRAPH SOUNDS LIKE JOHN BLAKE. REVISE AND USE YOUR OWN WORDS. He later passed away in 1978. He tried to get the FBI to return her wedding ring to him. They did so-two years after he died. Penny, Liuzzos oldest daughter had two bad marriages; so did her youngest daughter Sally. Both of them married to get their minds off their mother’s murder. Sally was also an orphan at the age of 20. Sally took the death of her mother and soon after her father, the hardest. Her two brothers, Tony and Tommy, who were thirteen and ten at the time of their mother’s death, later dropped out of school. Anthony Liuzzo Jr., the eldest son, has jumped in and out of the public eye since the horrific tragedy fell on this family. He filed a $ 2 million dollar lawsuit against the FBI on behalf of himself and his siblings. “My brother always said there was a government conspiracy, but I didn’t believe him,” she said. (pg. 202 parag. 4)

The FBI Informant who was in the suspected car that held the people who savagely murdered Liuzzo, could have easily helped Liuzzo in some shape form or fashion. However, the whole conspiracy was covered up instead of being wildly broadcasted like Reverend Reef’s murder. REV. REEF? The whole situation is racist, bias, sexist, and completely corrupt amoNG other things. It is a good thing that her eldest daughter, Penny and son, Anthony Jr. managed to forgive one of the men involved in her mother’s murder. Her children will never forget what they all had to endure. Anthony Jr. says he is not bitter over his mother anymore. He has forgiven all of the killers. "Yahweh has a plan for me," He told one Associated Press reporter. "I am not bitter.... I am doing my mother's work." He says he, too, is battling to uphold the Constitution. "I felt very strongly my mother gave her life for this country. I am willing to do the same." (pg. 203 parag. 2) ONCE AGAIN YOU PULL DIRECTLY FROM BLAKE. REWRITE. GRADE SO FAR, NC OR NO CREDIT UNTIL YOU CLEAN UP THE IDEA THEFT.
 
Sophia Andrews

Initial Planning Sheet
1. What is the subject of your paper?
Penny Luizzo
2. Why do you want to write about this subject?
I am choosing this subject because I would like to see how my writing reflects my reading comprehension
3. What audience are you writing to?
I am writing to those that are also intereted in this subject, as well as those who are in my class, and others who may have taken this course previously, in which they wrote about his topic.
4. What question do you want your paper to answer?
Who was Penny Luizzo and how did her mother’s death impact her?
5. What writing stragety will you be using?
I will be using evidence from the book
READ THE EXAMPLE ON THE BACK OF THE INITIAL PLANNING SHEET TO SEE HOW TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS. IN THE WRITE COURSE VIDEO I SHOWED YOU LAST WEEK, THERE WAS A PART WHERE NORM TALKED ABOUT THE PURPOSE FOR WRITING AND STRATEGY. OF COURSE YOU WILL USE EVIDENCE FROM THE ESSAY. THE QUESTION HAS TO DO WITH RHETORICAL STYLE: DESCRIPTION, EXAMPLES, CAUSE AND EFFECT, WHICH SEEMS THE BEST FOR THIS TOPIC.

YOU ALSO HAVE TOO MANY TYPOS. NEXT TIME RUN A SPELL-CHECK. YOU WANT TO POST YOUR BEST WORK.
Of the five children belonging to Viola Liuzzo, Penny Liuzzo Herrington is her eldest child, as well as the one that her mother most connected with. Viola Liuzzo was shot by a group of Klu Klux Klan members, while giving a black male by the name of Leroy Moton a ride home from the CIVIL RIGHTS march that was HELD in Selma, which Viola SAID SHE was determined to ATTEND, (COMMA SPLICE) she claimed that she was tired of seeing people get beat up. When Viola called home to tell her family that she was going to the march Penny told her mother “ I’m never going to see you again, Mom. I know it. I just feel it. Please let me go in your place. I’ll go” (PAGE NUMBER).

However Viola laughed her daughters fears off, not knowing that within the next couple of hours the instinct that her daughter had was going to come true. Penny’s such strong connection with her mother resulted in her memories of her mother not being enough to carry on, the impact of her mothers death was pretty damaging. (YOU ARE BORROWING HEAVILY FROM JOHN BLAKE. REVISE AND USE YOUR OWN WORDS. DO NOT WRITE AND READ.)

AS the eldest out of her siblings, as well as the one that was closest to her mother, PENNY SAID, this (WHAT?) only made things more challenging for HER to accept. To see them (WHO?) in pain, without an explainantion (SP), as well as a connection with their mother once apoun (SP) a time, leaves Penny looked at for answers. Which she does (VERB TENSE) not have.

The effect on Sally her younger sister was brutal, “ My heart just broke when Sally was eleven years old and we went to visit my mom’s grave and she just sobbed on my shoulder, ‘Please tell me what she was like. I don’t remember. I cant remember her voice” (PAGE NUMBER). But Penny still has plenty of memories of her mother. She was the eldest child and spent the most time with her.

It hurt Penny deeply that her mother was taken from her, and her family, COMMA SPILCE she was bitter for a while, and severely damaged . She got married, because she figured that marriage would minimize the pain for a while. Penny also admitted that her mother’s death made her fear for her own future. She payed WRONG WORD to God for her to not be taken away from her children. However she does admit that when she became a mother her bitterness toward the world, The FBI and plenty of others who cared less about her mothers death eased, as well as her unforgetable mothers words “ hate hurtst the hater, not the hated. It eats you up. Its oo consuming. It makes you so unhappy”

Penny had a rough road after mother mother passed, with her being the eldset, and the closest with her mother she was looked to withun her herslef and her siblings for answers. Unfortunately she didn’t WHAT?
YOU REPEAT “SHE WAS THE ELDEST…” A LOT. YOU ALSO BORROW FROM BLAKE TOO MUCH. I DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU BEGIN AND HE ENDS. THIS ESSAY, WHICH IS NOT COMPLETED NEEDS EDITING. AT PRESENT THE GRADE IS A 2/3. YOU CAN DO MUCH BETTER. EMAIL ME THE REVISED ESSAY FOR A BETTER GRADE.
 
GREAT PLANNING. THE WRITING NEEDS ATTENTION IN PLACES, NAMELY THOSE WHERE YOU USE JOHN BLAKE’S WRITING AND DON’T GIVE HIM CREDIT. USE YOUR OWN WORDS. NOTE THE COMMENTS. BEFORE REVISION THE GRADE IS A 3/4.

Deanna Moody
1-3

Planning sheet:
1)The subject of the paper is Penny Liuzzo Harrington.
2)I wanted to write about this because It was most intresting to me.
3)I am writting to COA students.
4)i want my research paper to answer who is Penny and what impact the mothers death had on the family.
5)The writting strategy i think I'll use is describing who penny and viola is and compare and contrast.


Outline:
I want my research papper to answer the impact on the family's life and who Penny and Viola was.
1)describe Penny and Viola
2)The impact on the family
3)how I felt


Penny Luizzo Harrington is the oldest daughter of Viola Luizzo, a civil rights activist, who was killed by the Klu Klux Klan for transporting a black male who was a cilvil rights marcher. Ladies Home Journal magazine suggested VERB TENSE that Viola was killed because she was involved with other things outside of home, and lots of readers agreed. The magazine showed her dead body covered in blood and bullet holes. It mentioned she was a nigger lover who slept around with black men and that she was a whore.(196) YOU ARE QUOTING. THESE ARE NOT YOUR WORDS. PUT THEM IN QUOTATION MARKS.

The impact on her family from the death of their mother was very hard and confusing because they WHO? were young and did not understand why she'd been killed and why people showed hate toward them and ther mother: IS THIS A BLOCK QUOTE?

Her father never recovered. Her sisters and brothers struggled. And Penny carried around a knot of bitterness for years....'please , tell me what she was like. I don't remember. I don't remember. Please, I cant remember her voice (197).

The family was so disturbed on their mother’s death and the way the plublic persued her to be. I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU MEAN HERE. REWRITE.

In conclusion, Penny is the only on with memories of her mother since they spent a lot of time together. PENNY ALSO GOES to schools to talk about her mother so she won’t be forgotten. I think Penny had the right to be angry with the Klu Klux Klan and the government because her family did not get the proper justice. Even after SHE and her family HAD hard times, she is still grateful to have her family and HAS focused (VERB TENSE) on forgiveness to move forward. (SIGNAL PHRASE) PENNY SAYS, "She came out of this cocoon of loathing, hate, and anger and just blossomed into this beautiful, empathetic person"(204).
 
GOOD JOB RAYMOND. NOTE THE COMMENTS AND REVISE. PRESENTLY, THE GRADE IS 3/4.

Raymond Cade
3-19-08
Engl. 201b

Describe Viola Liuzzo and the type of person she was. In reading the story, do you think her participation in the Civil Rights Movement was unexpected?

This is a story about Penny Liuzzo Herrington, the daughter of a Civil Rights activist member, Who gave her life for a peace movement. Her name was Viola. Viola was a brave person who didn't care about what anyone said, including her own daughter. Viola had a good heart and cared about what happened to the individuals who were about peace in Selma.

Viola said “Hate hurts the hater, not the hated." It eats you up. It’s too consuming. It makes you unhappy" (205). NICE USE OF TEXT. She didn't want to LET JIM CROW LAWS CONTINUE TO DISENFRANCHISE BLACK PEOPLE in the South; she wanted to play the role of the peace maker.

To Viola’S family it was unexpected WHEN SHE CALLED AND TOLD THEM SHE WAS GOING to join the Civil Rights Movement's car pool system. Her role was that of the chauffeur FOR the freedom protesters. In her heart Viola knew that she was going to go. "I’m tired of sitting around watching people getting beat up." SHE SAID. (205) Liuzzo was willing to go because she wanted to stop the unfairness in the south. Penny knew her mother was going to die so she tried talk to her mother out of it.
 
FOR ALL STUDENTS WHO DIDN'T POST THEIR MIDTERMS, PLEASE DO SO. IT MAKES IT EASIER TO RESPOND. IF YOU HAVEN'T POSTED YOURS YET, YOU HAVE UNTIL THE END OF THIS WEEK, APR. 11.
 
Kay Kaunda
201b

Penny Liuzzo the daughter of Viola Liuzzo was murdered driving black marchers to Selma on her way back to Montgomery. Most people were not sympathetic an believed that she had brought upon herself her own death. Her family as a result were deeply affected by her death what affected them into adulthood. The F.B.I involvement in Viola Liuzzo caused a major backlash among the community and also to emotional strain on the family.

Viola Liuzzo was not an average stay at home mom she was always busy trying to educate herself and help other people amongst her. She was described by Stanton as being ‘one of these people who got really involved in everything she did. They became like a vortex that sucks other people into their enthusiasm’ (198). The type of affect she had is one of many reasons why she is named in civil rights memorials and why she mentioned within history. On the day she was murdered before going to Selma her daughter Penny had a premonition that something bad was to happen to her mother. Her mother did not seem reluctant to go even though her daughter showed real concern for safety Viola instead replied laughing ‘I’ll pee on your grave’(199) . Though she knew the dangers of going to Selma is still was not adamant to go along on her trip. When her family found out that Viola had been murder it was of a deep affect on them, With her father never really recovering from the death of his wife and also with the put down of his wife that she was a promiscuous woman sleeping with black men resulted in him turning to drinking and eventually dying in 1978 still with the guilt that he was a failure to people an incapable of keeping his wife in line. Penny’s younger sister was also affected. Her two brothers were so traumatized by what had happened to their mother that they dropped out of school at a young age and in all secluded themselves from society. Penny describes how the effected her sister Sally was ‘brutal and how her sister many times begged her to describe her mother. Both Penny and Sally experienced bad marriages. Penny herself had many memories of her mother as she was close to her. She describes her mother as ‘always for the underdog’ (198)

On the day that Viola Liuzzo was murdered she had just finished dropping off people in Selma when a car full of 4 members of the Ku Klux Klan shot her dead and were later arrested. One of the members Thomas Rowe Jr was a F.B.I informant what lead to especially her brother Anthony Liuzzo Jr questioning what the involvement the F.B.I had in her murder and if they was a potential cover up. The F.B.I knew that the most important thing to do was to attack her reputation, they released her Psychiatric records in a campaign to make Viola look as if she had brought the killing among herself and that she was not a victim. When the case was taken to court the whole white male jury acquitted them of any wrong doing until it was moved to different jurisdiction they were then sentenced to ten years and Thomas Rowe Jr was not convicted. Penny describes her brother Anthony Jr thoughts saying ‘My brother always said there was a government conspiracy, but I did not believe him’ (202). He took legal action against the F.B.I for a sum of $2million, In the trial the F.B.I described how they had disposed of ’10,000 pages of documents’ but thought this was said The Liuzzo still lost the court case and ordered to pay for court case of $80,000 but that decision was later on revoked due to a television report about the case. Penny later on says ‘At first I thought they were hero’s. I was disappointed’ (202) she had lost all believe in the F.B.I and the government as a result of that ruling. Just like his sister Anthony Jr lost belief in the legal system, he describes how he could forgive the people for the death of his mother but he then says ‘I felt very strongly my mother gave her life for this country. I am willing to do the same’ (203)

The death of Viola was made worse by the F.B.I by them attacking her causing a public backlash. The F.B.I knew that if they were to take any type of responsibility of the murder of Viola that that would indeed be a big liability for them. The death of Viola had a great affect on her children yet they learnt how to forgive the people who caused her death. One important saying that her mom said to her when she was young was ‘Hate hurts the haters, not the hated. It eats you up. It’s consuming. It makes you unhappy.’(205). When Penny describes the look on Thomas Jr face when asking forgiveness that it was a face of ‘agony’ ,though the long term affect that it has had upon Penny is that now she has a ‘pessimistic’ view of her life. The one thing that penny managed to make her feel peace was her son’s, she knew that her mother would have wanted her to b happy and not so resentful. Penny Liuzzo, the daughter of Penny is put into the section ‘Children of the Martyrs’ because her mother did die for what she believed in and in no way did her family exaggerate the difficulties they experienced to gain sympathy as everyone was against them. Penny best describes how much she’s able to find happiness by saying ‘If god would say I’m going to grant you a gift for my life, I would never have come up with the gift he gave me.’ (205)
 
Dylan Cunningham
1-3

1. Who is Penny Luizzo Herrington and what was the impact of her mother, Viola Liuzzo's death on her life?

Penny Luizzo Herrington is the daughter of Viola Liuzzo, she married twice before just like her mother did. She went through a sad moment with her family when her mother left to Selma and was murdered by a man named Eugene Thomas. She “is a warm and open woman who loves to laugh.” Penny was close with her mother and also became like friends.
Viola Liuzzo called home and informed her family that she was going to leave to Selma. Penny was young at the time and asks her mother if she could leave with her, her mother “laughed off her daughters fear.” This made Penny extremely sad. After she left, a call came at mid night; Penny's dad answered the phone and said, “Penny, your mom is dead.” The magazine also stated that “she was having relationships with black men, and they called her white whore and a nigger lover.” Everything seems to changed, because she was helping black people, readers from A Ladies Home Journal magazine asked what kind of woman will actually leave her family behind for a civil rights demonstration. The family was going through hard times, Penny's dad used to drink a lot disregarding Penny at all costs, and her mother was the only one who really actually cared. Although Penny doesn’t agree with her mother leaving them, she believed that her mom did help with curing the racism problems that were going on at the time. She doesn’t want to be hurt again and just wanted to live happily. When she found the person who killed her mother, she forgave him for some stupid reason.
“She didn’t hesitate because she’s now found something else to live for –her sons. Penny says she doesn’t want to hurt anymore. Her mom would have wanted it for her daughter, to be raised properly and not live a life of sorrow and wrong morals. “I really have a good life. I’m not the richest person in the world. But I have people who love and adore me.”
She noticed that if she wanted to be happy, then she seriously had to start talking to some people and realize that her mother is gone and she has to stop thinking about it because there is nothing she can do about it. Once she stopped thinking about it, she felt better about life again and there were no more problems.
 
Raymond Cade
3-19-08
Engl. 201b

Describe Viola Liuzzo and the type of person she was. In reading the story, do you think her participation in the Civil Rights Movement was unexpected?

This is a story about Penny Liuzzo Herrington, the daughter of a Civil Rights activist member, Who gave her life for a peace movement. Her name was Viola. Viola was a brave person who didn't care about what anyone said, including her own daughter. Viola had a good heart and cared about what happened to the individuals who were about peace in Selma.

Viola said “Hate hurts the hater, not the hated." It eats you up. It’s too consuming. It makes you unhappy" (205). NICE USE OF TEXT. She didn't want to let JimCrow laws continue to disenfranchise black people in the South; she wanted to play the role of the peace maker.

To Viola’S family it was unexpected when she called and told them she was going to join the Civil Rights Movement's car pool system. Her role was that of the chauffeur FOR the freedom protesters. In her heart Viola knew that she was going to go. "I’m tired of sitting around watching people getting beat up." SHE SAID. (205) Liuzzo was willing to go because she wanted to stop the unfairness in the south. Penny knew her mother was going to die so she tried talk to her mother out of it.
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Ashley Dorsett
MID-TERM
ENG.1B 1-3

Who is Penny Liuzzo Herrington? And what was the impact of her mother Viola Liuzzo's death on her life?

Penny Liuzzo is the daughter of Viola Liuzzo, Penny was close with her mother and they even became friends Penny is a warm and open woman who loves to laugh. Penny went through a sad moment with her family when her mother Viola Liuzzo let them for Salem. She tried to talk her mother out of going when she called and told her family what she was going for.” I'm never going to see you again, Mom I know it”.(p195), but Viola was determined to go. Mrs. Viola Liuzzo was murdered while giving a ride to 19 year old Leroy Manton one of many civil right marchers she drove around. This is when the family started to see a change because Viola wanted to help black people. A Ladies Home Magazine survey taken after Viola's death asked “ What kind of woman would leave her family for a civil rights demonstration.”(p.196) The magazine also stated that she had brought death on herself be leaving home 55% agreed It wasn't easy for 6 year Sally Viola's youngest daughter, who got taunted and rocks thrown at her while walking to school. Even though Penny didn't agree with her mother leaving them, she felt very strongly about her mother giving her life to the country to help Civil Rights Movement. Penny admits her mother's death made her pessimistic about her own future. “ I prayed every night, God dont take me away from my kids...(”p.204) Penny later overcame her bitterness, motherhood gave her another reason not to be bitter, how can you be a good mom and be hateful, Penny says. Rager a good friend of Penny said “ She came out of this cocoon of loathing hate, and anger and just blossomed into this beautiful, empathic person.”
 
Ashley Dorsett
Planning Sheet

1) I am writting about Penny Liuzzo who is the daughter of Viola Liuzzo.

2) To infrom people about who she was and what she has been through just becaue her mother wanted to take a stand.

3) I am writting to students

4)Th Question i am going to answer is who is Penny Liuzzo and what was the imact of her mother Viola Liuzzo's death on her life.
 
Ammnah Babikir
3-19-08/ revised
Eng.201b

Question 3: Talk about the involvement of the FBI in Viola Liuzz’os family? How did Penny find peace?

The FBI ruined Liuzzo’s reputation by attempting to cover up the murder. The FBI did not include the fact that one of their officials was in the car with the other four white suspects that shot her in the head and suposedly killed her instantly, according to the police report. J. Hoover began telling President Johnson that Liuzzo was having sex with black men, accusing her of being a drug addict, and a husband who was involved in organized crime. Then, the FBI further more mislead people to believing this misinformation to the press, which lead to questioning her mental health and her morality. This was a case of racism, sexism, and conspiracy.

Anthony Liuzzo Sr., Luizzo’s late husband was seen as a failure who could not keep his woman in check. He later passed away in 1978. He tried to get the FBI to return her wedding ring to him. They did so-two years after he died. Penny, Liuzzos oldest daughter had two bad marriages; so did her youngest daughter Sally. Both of them married to get their minds off their mother’s murder. Sally was also an orphan at the age of 20. Sally took the death of her mother and soon after her father, the hardest. Her two brothers, Tony and Tommy, who were thirteen and ten at the time of their mother’s death, later dropped out of school. Anthony Liuzzo Jr., the eldest son, has jumped in and out of the public eye since the horrific tragedy fell on this family. He filed a $ 2 million dollar lawsuit against the FBI on behalf of himself and his siblings. “My brother always said there was a government conspiracy, but I didn’t believe him,” she said. (pg. 202 parag. 4)

The FBI Informant who was in the suspected car that held the people who savagely murdered Liuzzo, could have easily helped Liuzzo in some shape form or fashion. However, the whole conspiracy was covered up instead of being wildly broadcasted like Reverend Reef’s murder. The whole situation is racist, bias, sexist, and completely corrupt amoungst other things. It is a good thing that her eldest daughter, Penny and son, Anthony Jr. managed to forgive one of the men involved in her mother’s murder. Her children will never forget what they all had to endure. Anthony Jr. says he is not bitter over his mother anymore. He has forgiven all of the killers. "Yahweh has a plan for me," He told one Associated Press reporter. "I am not bitter.... I am doing my mother's work." He says he, too, is battling to uphold the Constitution. "I felt very strongly my mother gave her life for this country. I am willing to do the same." (pg. 203 parag. 2) Her brother was the one who ultimately found peace . I think that hers as time passed on by.
 
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