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100 years since the birth of Viola Liuzzo (1925-1965), martyr of the civil rights movement
On the evening of March 25, 1965, Viola Liuzzo, the 39-year-old mother of five children, was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan ...
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Viola Liuzzo: Mother of 5 killed by KKK after marching for civil rights
Viola Liuzzo was born in Pennsylvania ... against the men for conspiring to violate Liuzzo's civil rights. They found them guilty and an Alabama federal district judge handed down the maximum ...
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Monument honoring slain civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo and friend is unveiled in Detroit park
28, 2023 at Viola Liuzzo Park in northwest Detroit ... trampled and tear-gassed by police at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. On March 7, 1965, marchers were walking from Selma ...