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Witness History: The KKK and the Killing of Viola Liuzzo

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The Killing of Viola Liuzzo and the KKK

10/12/2015 GMT

The KKK and the Killing of Viola Liuzzo

BBC World Service - Witness History, The KKK and the Killing of Viola Liuzzo

In 1965, three KKK members were convicted of conspiring to kill a civil rights activist

In December 1965, three Ku Klux Klan members were found guilty over the murder of white civil rights activist, Viola Liuzzo, in one of the first successful prosecutions of the KKK

In December 1965, three members of the Ku Klux Klan were found guilty over the murder of white civil rights activist, Viola Liuzzo, in one of the first successful prosecutions of its kind in the United States. Viola Liuzzo was killed on the final day of the Selma to Montgomery march, when thousands of civil rights activists marched to demand that blacks be allowed to register to vote. Witness talks to one of the lawyers involved in the landmark case.

Photo: A Ku Klux Klan meeting in Beaufort, South Carolina, in 1965. (Credit: Harry Benson/Getty Images)

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