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Last March 26, Rowe was one of four men arrested in connection with the senseless highway slaying of Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, 39, a Detroit white woman who had gone to Alabama for the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery...
...specifics of what Rowe told the grand jury were not made public. But in general he told how after the march from Selma to Montgomery was over, three Klansmen left Birmingham looking for excitement. Considering Rowe one of their own, they let him go along. Before they left, according to Rowe, he called his FBI contact...
...four cruised around Selma, Rowe said, and finding no outlet for Klansmanship, headed out on Highway 80. On the highway, the Klansmen spotted Mrs. Liuzzo driving a car in which the only passenger was a Negro youth, Leroy Moton...
...only organization actively seeking Northern volunteers is Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The Selma incident diverted SCLC's attention at a key point in the recruitment drive, but the SCOPE project has inspired the formation of chapters at several key universities. At both the University of Minnesota and Brandeis, SCOPE groups are training for a summer of voter registration work. As explained in today's insert, each chapter will work under the supervision of Negro leaders in preselected Southern communities...
...View from the South," an exhibit of photographs from Montgomery and Selma, Ala., taken by Glen J. Pearcy '66, a CRIMSON photographer, will open today in Quincy House...