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

Stanton, Mary, 1946-

From Selma to sorrow : the life and death of Viola Liuzzo / Mary Stanton. - Paperback edition. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2000, ©1998. - xiv, 250 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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.

0820322741 9780820322742


Liuzzo, Viola, 1925-1965.


Selma to Montgomery Rights March Selma, Ala.) (1965 :


African Americans--Civil rights--History--Alabama--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--Alabama--20th century.
Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
Murder--History--Alabama--Lowndes County--20th century.
Women civil rights workers--United States--Biography.


Alabama--Race relations.

E185.98 .L58 / S83 2000

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