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spazzmann

(748 posts)
Mon Dec 3, 2012, 11:06 AM Dec 2012

Today in Peace and Justice history on December 3, 1965

An all-white jury in Alabama convicted three Ku Klux Klansmen for the murder of white civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo. The mother of five from Detroit was shot and killed while driving a young black activist, Leroy Moton, back to the town of Selma following a protest march to the state capital in Montgomery. http://bit.ly/TDoPit

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