JUNE 2020 | VOLUME 1 | ISSUE 2
14 VIOLA GREGG LIUZZO
PHOTO STORY
Thursday, March 25, 1965. Seventeen days before her 40th birthday, Viola Gre Klux Klansmen as she helped shuttle Civil Rights marchers in the historic Selma to the Ferris State University Jim Crow Museum; after watching news reports of th the Edmund Petus Bridge—known as “Bloody Sunday”—the mother of five left with the Civil Rigts movement in Selma. On the last day, while transporting Afric from Montgomery to Selma, a car carrying four klansmen (one who happened up alongside Liuzzo's car and fatally shot her in the head. Liuzzo’s death mad killed in the Civil Rights movement. Watch the Jim Crow Museum’s “1965 Murder of Viola Liuzzo” story here.
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