Three loving sisters, named by their mother after flowers: All of it, covered through the lens of 1964, is a stark parallel to everything that is going on right now in 2022, and I hope the reader gleans that after reading the book, that there’s still much work to do around all of these issues.” She added, “That’s kind of what’s so mind-boggling about the topics that are covered in the book - everything from voting rights and inequality at the voting polls to racial unrest and a woman’s right to govern her own body and financial independence for women and a whole host of topics gay and lesbian rights. “The book opens … with the brutal murder of civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner, and I thought that seemed to ring so deep about the importance of voting and it was a great place to start what this book would certainly entail over the course of three or four hundred pages.” But as I started to research voting rights in this country, I came to understand that there was a much deeper, richer meaning behind how Blacks got the right to vote in this country,” recalled Morris. It would be interesting to write a book about it. “We had just come through the 2020 election, and there was lots of rancor about the ‘big lie’ and election fraud, and living here in Georgia, I witnessed the very long lines for people to vote and I just thought it was all so interesting.
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