by Adelle Banks | Aug 17, 2011 | News
(RNS) Two and a half weeks after the sudden death of its president, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference has named a nephew of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as its new leader. Isaac Newton Farris Jr., 48, was elected on Monday (Aug. 15) to lead the... by Cliff Vaughn | Mar 21, 2002 | Opinion
One car carried Viola Liuzzo and Leroy Moton. The other carried four Klansmen. The latter pulled alongside the former on a lonely stretch of U.S. Highway 80 between Selma and Montgomery. The Klansmen fired into Liuzzo’s car, killing her instantly. Moton survived...