Word: moton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defendant himself, a bored auto mechanic, potbellied despite his youth; Robert Shelton, Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, who sat at the defense table providing moral support and advice until the judge requested him to take a seat elsewhere; and the two key prosecution witnesses-Negro Leroy Moton, 20, who was riding in the car with Viola Liuzzo on the night of the murder, and FBI Informer Gary Thomas Rowe, 34, who was in the car with the accused killers...
Overcome. Leroy Moton took the stand and told how he and Mrs. Liuzzo got into the Liuzzo car on March 25 and left Selma just after 7:30 p.m. At about 8 o'clock, Moton was "fiddling with the radio dial, and she was humming We Shall Overcome,'" when "a car pulled up beside us and shot into the car two or three times." When the car came to a stop down the road, Moton shut off the ignition, turned off the lights and waited for five minutes. Soon "a car came back," shone its lights...
...spoke of Leroy Moton. "The black man has no sense, morals, manners, courtesy, decency or anything when he sits up here on this stand and says 'yeah' and 'no in front of this honorable white judge ... He said, 'I passed out for 25 or 30 minutes.' What was he doing down there all that time...
...four cruised around Selma, Rowe said, and finding no outlet for Klansmanship, headed out on Highway 80. On the highway, the Klansmen spotted Mrs. Liuzzo driving a car in which the only passenger was a Negro youth, Leroy Moton...