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Mrs. Viola Liuzzo was slain by sniper while driving this car

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1965 March 26.
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  1. African Americans
  2. Alabama
  3. Automobiles
  4. Civil Rights
  5. Homicides
  6. Liuzzo, Viola
  7. Photographic Prints
  8. Selma To Montgomery Rights March
  9. Selma, Ala.)
  10. Snipers
  11. Transmitted Images

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This is a general view of the scene where Michigan civil rights worker, Mrs. Viola Liuzzo was slain late 3/25, Lowndesboro, Ala. [Selma to Montgomery marchers wave American flags in front of the Alabama State Capitol at the end of their 5 day march] Mounted Dallas County possemen stand by as an Alabama state trooper tries to get Negro woman to her feet after police used tear gas, clubs and ropes to break up a protest march yesterday outside Selma A small band of Negro teenagers march singing and clapping their hands for a short distance here 3/9 [Martin Luther King, Jr. pictured in crowd at the end of the Selma-Montgomery Rights March, Montgomery, Alabama] Civil rights marchers, one trailing an American flag, trudge along U.S. Highway 80, named in honor of the president of the Confederacy, as they make their way toward Montgomery and the state capitol Young Negroes form a conga line as they parade around "sleep-out" demonstrators preparing to spend a second night bedded down on a Selma street late March 11th (1965) SNCC leader John Lewis (light coat, C) cringes as burly state trooper swings his club at Lewis' head 3/7 during attempted Negro march on the state capitol at Montgomery. Lewis later was admitted to a local hospital with a possible skull fracture State trooper watches as apparently unconcious woman is removed from highway by two friends here 3/7 [ie March 7] after she fell in first rush of troopers to break up attempted Selma-to-Montgomery Negro march [Sea of 30,000 civil rights demonstrators gathered outside the Alabama state capitol following their march from Selma to Montgomery] Two GI's stand guard on bridge over Soapstone Creek--about 10 miles east of Selma--as Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights marchers approach [Alabama state troopers using tear gas and clubs against African Americans and others during the Selma to Montgomery march] [Some of the 300 Selma to Montgomery marchers stop for a break] Helmeted state conservation department agents stand on capitol steps and watch 30,000 civil rights demonstrators conduct ceremonies and speeches in front of them A solid block of Alabama state troopers and their cars stand by for the announced march of civil rights demonstrators ... Selma officials have stated that march would be blocked [Composite of two photographs: lower photograph shows the Selma--Montgomery civil rights march, with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., (front/center), Coretta Scott King (behind Dr. King) and John Lewis (right of Mrs. King); upper photograph shows five white segregationists, two with confederate flags] Estimated 30,000 civil rights marchers fill the street in front of Alabama state capitol [A pair of muddy shoes underscore the weariness following the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; state capitol in background] Federal marshal reads text of federal court injunction prohibiting Selma-to-Montgomery march to Dr. Martin Luther King (2nd from left) as [he] attempted to lead his followers out of town Selma mayor Joe Smitherman takes a looks [sic] at the area in which several hundred civil rights demonstrators are gathered for march on county courthouse here
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