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Viola Fauver Liuzzo (née Gregg; April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was an American civil rights activist in Detroit, Michigan.She was known for going to Alabama in March 1965 to support the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights.
On June 21, 1964, three Civil Rights Movement activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by local members of the Ku Klux Klan.They had been arrested earlier in the day for speeding, and after being released were followed by local law enforcement & others, all affiliated with the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [1]
Four young girls, ranging in age from 11 to 14, were killed in the explosion, which also caused anywhere between 14 and 22 additional injuries. The deaths provoked national outrage, and, the following summer, the United States Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
The names of the four girls killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing are engraved upon the Civil Rights Memorial. Erected in Montgomery, Alabama in 1989. [ 167 ] The Civil Rights Memorial is an inverted, conical granite fountain and is dedicated to 41 people who died in the struggle for the equal rights and integrated treatment of all ...
Civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer was killed Jan. 10, 1966, when his house was firebombed. ... Bowers also was accused of ordering the murders in 1964 of three civil rights workers, Michael ...
Born and raised in Pelham, New York, [1] [2] to a family of Jewish heritage, Schwerner attended Pelham Memorial High School.He was called Mickey by his friends. His mother, Anne Siegel (May 1, 1912 – November 29, 1996), was a science teacher at nearby New Rochelle High School, and his father, Nathan Schwerner (June 19, 1909 – March 6, 1991), was a businessman.
Among the 64 people on board the American Airlines flight, which crashed into a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter on Wednesday, Jan. 29, was 30-year-old civil rights attorney and former Miss Kansas ...
The photo of Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow, a 15-year-old student at the K-12 Abundant Life Christian School, was posted on her father’s Facebook page and shows her at a shooting range wearing a ...