Tag: Leroy Moton

‘They killed a white woman’: Fifty-four years later, Leroy Moton looks back at the killing that changed the civil rights movement | The Washington Post

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Donna Britt, The Root Leroy Moton was riding in a car with civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo when she was shot to death after the third Selma to Montgomery march, in 1965. (Horace Cort/AP). Featured Image [dropcap]On[/dropcap] the night of Feb. 18, 1965, black high school senior Leroy Moton was arrested for the “crime” of […]

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