Word: liuzzo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...applaud the President's high purpose and sympathize with his anger, but I deplore his mentioning in a news conference the names of the four suspects in the Alabama murder of Mrs. Liuzzo [April 2]. The right of the accused to their own day in court, represented by counsel, is at least as important as the right to assemble and petition or the right to vote. Legal guilt must be proved in a courtroom, not announced from a speaker's platform...
...Hung Up." As night fell, a steady stream of cars were moving along Route 80, carrying demonstrators from Montgomery back to Selma. One of the volunteer drivers was red-haired Viola Gregg Liuzzo, 39, twice-divorced, wife of a Detroit Teamster union official, the mother of five children, aged six to 18, one a 17-year-old married daughter living in Georgia. She was occasionally involved in protest activities, once kept two of her sons out of school more than a month to dramatize her objection to a state law permitting students to drop out of school at 16, which...
...rule requires that a potential candidate play an active role in key issues on which there is a national consensus. Romney was the first major political personality to lead a civil rights sympathy march last month after the Selma violence. Only last week, he visited the husband of Viola Liuzzo, told him that his wife was "like Joan...