Viola Liuzzo and Doug Jones the struggle for Voting Rights in Alabama
\u201cToday marks the beginning of a determined, organized, mobilized campaign to get the right to vote everywhere in Alabama,\u201d King told supporters at Selma\u2019s Brown Chapel AME Church. \u201cWe must be ready to go to jail by the thousands. ... Our cry to the state of Alabama is a simple one. Give us the ballot!\u201dAmong those who heard his call was Viola Liuzzo, a 39-year-old white housewife from Detroit.\xa0Carl M. Cannon RealClear Politics\n\nJ. Edgar Hoover began a smear campaign against the victim to divert attention from an inconvenient fact: an FBI informant known to have participated in Klan violence had been in the killers\u2019 car and may even have participated in the slaying. Viola\u2019s family endured Hoover\u2019s claiming that cuts on her arm from the car\u2019s shattered window indicated \u201crecent drug use\u201d and that her proximity to Moton resembled \u201ca necking party,\u201d despite an autopsy revealing no traces of drugs in her system and indicating she hadn\u2019t had sex recently before her death.Donna Britt WP