My Last Ride Selma, AL 1965
- ISBN-10
- 1630214442
- ISBN-13
- 9781630214449
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-08-28
- Author
- Kristy Thomas
Description
Viola Liuzzo is a little known white Civil Rights worker. She dedicated her live to being an active participant in the Civil Rights Movement marching beside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, as well as his wife Coretta. Her story is one of courage and bravery as she packs her suitcase, loads her car and says goodbye to her husband and five children on her way to Selma, AL to march. This march was the same and yet very different from others. Coming on the heels of the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson civil rights workers converged on Selma for a march. It was to be peaceful but resulted in what is now historically known as "Bloody Sunday." Viola had a job to do, she used her car to shuttle the civil rights workers to their boarding houses as well as to locations where cars and busses were converging to take people home. But on this night, she did not make it. She was gunned down in her car while doing what she felt was her job to do, helping her black counterparts gain the rights that she was born with. This is a beautiful story of love and loss realizing that there are and have always been people out there that are willing to stand next to someone that is very different than them and risk their lives all in the name of freedom. Sometimes these people are complete strangers out on the protest lines, that become the lines of injustice the person next to you becomes your brother and sister no matter what they look like. *This is fan fair and is not autobiographical information.
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