In 1965, a car full of klansmen shot and killed Viola Liuzzo, a white woman from Detroit who volunteered to drive civil rights activists back to Selma after the march to Montgomery. The FBI immediately kicked into overdrive to drag her name through the mud.

Sources:

Stanton, Mary. From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998

Mendelsohn, Jack. The martyrs : sixteen who gave their lives for racial justice. Harper & Row 1966

https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/micheal-schwerner-james-chaney-andrew-goodman

https://famous-trials.com/mississippi-burningtrial/1978-barnetteconfession

https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/schwerner-michael/

http://repository.wustl.edu/concern/videos/7p88cm77s

https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-long-not-long-speech-text/

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-edition-september-10-2017-1.4280530/daughter-of-civil-rights-worker-murdered-in-selma-on-racism-white-supremacy-and-her-mother-s-legacy-1.4280754

https://archive.org/details/martyrssixteenwh00mend/page/176/mode/2up

In 1965, a car full of klansmen shot and killed Viola Liuzzo, a white woman from Detroit who volunteered to drive civil rights activists back to Selma after the march to Montgomery. The FBI immediately kicked into overdrive to drag her name through the mud. Sources: Stanton, Mary. From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998 Mendelsohn, Jack. The martyrs : sixteen who gave their lives for racial justice. Harper &amp; Row 1966 <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/micheal-schwerner-james-chaney-andrew-goodman">https://www.justice.gov/crt/case-document/micheal-schwerner-james-chaney-andrew-goodman</a>
<a href="https://famous-trials.com/mississippi-burningtrial/1978-barnetteconfession">https://famous-trials.com/mississippi-burningtrial/1978-barnetteconfession</a>
<a href="https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/schwerner-michael/">https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/schwerner-michael/</a>
<a href="http://repository.wustl.edu/concern/videos/7p88cm77s">http://repository.wustl.edu/concern/videos/7p88cm77s</a>
<a href="https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-long-not-long-speech-text/">https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-long-not-long-speech-text/</a>
<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-edition-september-10-2017-1.4280530/daughter-of-civil-rights-worker-murdered-in-selma-on-racism-white-supremacy-and-her-mother-s-legacy-1.4280754">https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-edition-september-10-2017-1.4280530/daughter-of-civil-rights-worker-murdered-in-selma-on-racism-white-supremacy-and-her-mother-s-legacy-1.4280754</a>
<a href="https://archive.org/details/martyrssixteenwh00mend/page/176/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/martyrssixteenwh00mend/page/176/mode/2up</a>

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