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From Selma to sorrow : the life and death of Viola Liuzzo / Mary Stanton.

By: Publication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2000, ©1998.Edition: Paperback editionDescription: xiv, 250 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0820322741
  • 9780820322742
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E185.98 .L58 S83 2000
Contents:
The black belt -- The story -- Unlocking the past -- Outside agitator -- Never! -- The great march -- What really happened? -- Coda.
Summary: The only white woman honored at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, Viola Liuzzo remains an enigma more than thirty years after her murder. This full-length biography follows Liuzzo through her childhood in the South and adult life in Michigan to the 1965 voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, where she died in a Klan ambush. --back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index.

The black belt -- The story -- Unlocking the past -- Outside agitator -- Never! -- The great march -- What really happened? -- Coda.

The only white woman honored at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, Viola Liuzzo remains an enigma more than thirty years after her murder. This full-length biography follows Liuzzo through her childhood in the South and adult life in Michigan to the 1965 voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, where she died in a Klan ambush. --back cover.

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