3/25 1965, Viola Liuzzo, 39, a white housewife and mother of 5 from Detroit, was killed by the KKK, supporting the struggle for voting rights in Selma, AL. Without telling her family, she had set out in her Oldsmobile in response to a call for volunteers after Bloody Sunday.
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“It’s everybody’s fight. There are too many people who just stand around talking.” Her killers were quickly caught since an FBI informant was with them—yet acquitted by an all white jury. Yet her witness added helped passage of the Voting Rights Act. The struggle continues.