Word: liuzzo
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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Housewife Viola Liuzzo was gunned down last March as she drove down U.S. 80 to pick up Selma-to-Montgomery marchers. There, too, last week shotgun blasts killed a 26-year-old Episcopal seminarian from New Hampshire and critically wounded a Catholic priest on a street in Hayneville (pop. 800). Both were civil rights workers...
Died. Matthew Hobson Murphy Jr., 51, Alabama attorney and self-styled "Imperial Klonsel" of the Ku Klux Klan who last May defended Collie Leroy Wilkins, one of the three Klansmen charged with the murder of Civil Rights Worker Viola Gregg Liuzzo; of injuries sustained in an auto accident; near Tuscaloosa...
...reported 647 Negro enrollments, Sumter was dropped. Alabama's Dallas County, home of Selma and of Sheriff Jim Clark, was a surefire candidate for the list. Another notorious "dead-end county," in Justice Department parlance, was Alabama's Lowndes, where a white civil rights worker, Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, was murdered last spring-and where, until March, not a single Negro was registered. Top priority went to Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish...
White Woman? "And here is another strange thing. This white woman. White woman?" He paused, then asked, "Where is that N.A.A.C.P. card?" He held up an N.A.A.C.P. membership card that was among Mrs. Liuzzo's effects...
...Liuzzo, he cried, "was up there singin' 'we will overcome, we will overcome, we will overcome.' What in God's name were they tryin' to overcome? To overcome God himself? And do unto the white people what God said you shall not do because there'll be thorns in your eyes, thorns in your flesh; if you intermarry with a servile race, then you shall be destroyed...