Video: 'Viola Liuzzo Murdered After Driving Voting Rights Activists to Selma'

(Friday, October 22, 1965; during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)) — An all-white jury today found Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr., a 22-year-old Ku Klux Klansman, not guilty of the murder of Viola Liuzzo, a 39-year-old white civil rights activist, housewife and mother of five from Michigan who was shot dead March 25, 1965, by members of the Ku Klux Klan after participating in the successful Selma to Montgomery marches for voting rights.