Viola Liuzzo (1925-1965) was the first white woman killed during the American civil rights movement. Inspired by the efforts of African Americans in the South to obtain the right to vote, she left her home in Detroit and participated in the...

From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo. By Mary Stanton. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 1998. Pp. xiv, 250. $24.95, ISBN 0-8203-2045-5.) On March 25, 1965, angry Klansmen murdered a Detroit housewife outside of Selma, Alabama....

By Mary Stanton. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 1998. Pp. xiv, 250. $24.95, ISBN 0-8203-2045-5.) On March 25, 1965, angry Klansmen murdered a Detroit housewife outside of Selma, Alabama. Viola Liuzzo was everything they despised: a white female...

Former state Attorney General Richmond Flowers, a moderate on racial issues who challenged the dominance of segregationist Gov. George Wallace in the 1960s but saw his political career end in an extortion case, has died. He was 88.Flowers died from Parkinson's disease at his home...

Tony WilsonLONDON (AP) _ Tony Wilson, a music impresario credited with guiding a crop of bands from industrial England to the international stage, has died. He was 57.Wilson promoted a host of influential musicians from his native city of Manchester in northern England, including Joy...