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It is an honor to be the granddaughter of Viola Liuzzo, but her sacrifice is still felt deeply within our family generations later. How lucky am I to have a grandmother whose name is recorded in ...
I remember young kids standing next to their parents giving ... a Unitarian minister from Boston, and Viola Liuzzo, a civil rights activist from Detroit — hit home for me. Early in the morning ...
locals learned that a white woman named Viola Gregg Liuzzo from Michigan had tragically been shot and killed by alleged Klansmen while she transported marchers back toward their homes after the march.
Cities close pools rather than integrate them, white mobs spit on kids as they try to enroll ... Selma, and the killings of Jimmie Lee Jackson and Viola Liuzzo and James Reeb, did touch a nation ...
Viola Liuzzo: Mother of 5 killed by KKK after marching ... Americans — here’s how it could impact you Parents whose kids become confident, successful adults avoid this 2-word phrase, says ...
• Trevor Wallace, comedian: March 22, The Fillmore, Detroit, ticket prices vary. • The Burt Bacharach Songbook: April 2, Sound Board at MotorCity Casino, Detroit ...
launched into the story of the time he played dead in Viola Liuzzo's passenger seat to avoid ... allowing her oldest three kids to participate, but keeping her nine-year-old Lynette home with ...
I knew some kids that went to Tulane ... John Brown, all right, but they killed him. You learn about Viola Liuzzo. Someone in Montgomery march, well, they shot her. You learn about Goodman ...
“Viola Liuzzo was definitely a hero,” Nkonoki explained ... danger and limitation into a landscape of possibility. “We kids wasn’t afraid no more,” he told me.
Viola Liuzzo died so that all of us would know there ... That woman should have been home taking care of her kids.' “These people just don't know what they're talking about.
"He loved his wife Sharon and his kids every bit as much as he did breaking ... report on the trial of the men charged with killing Viola Liuzzo shortly after the Selma-to-Montgomery march ...