Word: liuzzo
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...instrument of his zealotry. He exaggerated the domestic Communist menace while for years curiously neglecting organized crime. His men were swift to find the bodies of Andrew Goodman, James Chancy and Michael Schwerner after they were killed in Philadelphia, Miss., and to solve the Klan killing of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo in Alabama; yet they seemed slow otherwise to enforce the cause of civil rights. When Martin Luther King Jr. suggested that Southern FBI offices were unsympathetic to blacks, Hoover called him "the most notorious liar in the country...
...fledged undercover Government agent like Herbert Philbrick (/ Led Three Lives). As Philbrick's case suggests, the usually unsavory reputation of informers often vanishes if the cause seems especially just -or at least popular. The FBI'S hired hand who fingered the Ku Klux Klan killers of Viola Liuzzo generated considerably less controversy than Boyd Douglas...
Unlike Gilmore's Green County, there has been no civil rights violence involving the local residents in Lowndes County, Hewlett said. However, Lowndes County was the scene of the killing in 1965 of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, a white civil rights worker from Detroit...
...because blacks have been registering to vote in impressive numbers for the past five years. The starting point: passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, following the police attacks upon Martin Luther King Jr.'s Selma-to-Montgomery marches and the assassination of Civil Rights Worker Viola Liuzzo. Much of the excitement and publicity of those early voting drives is gone, but the campaign has continued - quietly, tediously, but effectively, and with considerable agony for blacks threatened with loss of jobs or welfare benefits if they sign up to vote. In the past four years,510 separate voter...
...other stops, wreaths were laid at the spots where Mrs. Viola Liuzzo and the Rev. James Reeb died. In Montgomery, Abernathy wanted to place a wreath on the bier of Alabama's late Governor Lurleen Wallace, but shied away in fear of provoking an incident. Instead, he sent Husband George a telegram that read: "I have just received the shocking news of the passing of your wife. Please know that we share your grief and sorrow, and our prayers are with you and your children...