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Il y a 2 jours · The Only White Woman to be Killed in the Fight for Civil Rights – Viola Liuzzo By Emily G. Thompson. In 1965, Viola Liuzzo – a mother of five – paid the ultimate price to march in support of civil rights: her life. She was the only white woman to be murdered during the civil rights movement. Oct 10, 2019 • 4 min read
Il y a 2 jours · Later that night, Viola Liuzzo, a white mother of five from Detroit who had come to Alabama to support voting rights for blacks, was assassinated by Ku Klux Klan members while she was ferrying marchers back to Selma from Montgomery.
Il y a 2 jours · You get no sense of what came before that, i.e. Jimmie Lee Jackson, Or what came after that, James Reeb, Viola Liuzzo, and that long 54-mile march. So I wanted to recreate that for anybody that’s interested to put people on that bridge, to put them in Selma, to put them in Alabama in 1965.
Il y a 5 jours · Viola Liuzzo was the only white woman killed down South during the civil rights movement of the 1960’s. Her story has largely been forgotten but she was a true hero who demonstrated courage and dedication to social justice. Both times I have viewed the marker, I left feeling the gravity of her actions. She stepped up bravely in a ...
Il y a 4 jours · Klansmen bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, killing four African American girls and injuring 14–22 others, and they also committed other murders, including those of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner (1964), Lemuel Penn (1964), Viola Liuzzo (1965), and Michael Donald.
Il y a 6 jours · King – 1978 NBC miniseries by Abby Mann depicts the 1965 murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo, as well as the 1958 near fatal stabbing, by a deranged woman, and 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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