On March 25, 1965, Viola Liuzzo, a middle-class white housewife from Detroit, Michigan, was shot and killed in Lowndesboro, Alabama. After watching television footage of 'Bloody Sunday,' Liuzzo drove to Selma, Alabama, to join Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s efforts to organize another march. Hours after the successful Selma-to-Montgomery march ended, Liuzzo and Leroy Moton, […]
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