Remembering Viola: Civil rights drama looks at movement's unsung heroes.

From: Times-News (Burlington, NC) | Date: February 18, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Charity Apple

Feb. 18--Viola Liuzzo was an unlikely hero. The 39-year-old mother of five was living in Michigan in 1965 when racial riots and violence plagued our nation. Liuzzo, who spent most of her childhood in the South, watched in horror as the events of Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965, were broadcast on TV and printed in newspapers across the country.

On that day, 500 marchers were attacked by Alabama State troopers in Selma, Ala., and Martin Luther King went on TV and asked citizens to come to Alabama to help. "Something about it so stirred her that ...

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