L-R; Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe, Viola liuzzo. An interview with Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe, daughter of Civil Right’s martyr, Viola Liuzzo. By Kelli Green In January the world shook with the voices of thousands of women from across all seven continents, in the largest protest in the history of our country. Among them were a group of...
Students give opinions on importance of voting rights. By Kelli Green March 25, 2016 marks the fifty-first anniversary of the Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, AL. The purpose of the march was to restore and protect voting rights for blacks and other minorities who were being kept away from their rights –originally granted...
By Kelli Green On March 7th, 1965, several men, women and children in Selma, AL began their march to the state capitol in Montgomery. The black citizens of Selma had grown weary over the treatment they were receiving at the voting polls. Just a month earlier, a 26-year-old deacon by the name of Jimmie Lee...