Word: liuzzo
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...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...