THE SECOND CIVIL WAR
In 1865,
saving Selma, Alabama was the South's last chance to save the Confederacy. The
best Confederate troops were there to protect the huge arsenal and the Ironclad
Ship Yards. The South's great, undefeated, ,General Nathan Bedford Forrest was
assigned to lead them. His men fought bravely.
In April of 1999 you were able to
attend a reenactment of the great Civil War Battle of Selma, and you also were
invited to attend the gala Battle and Dress Ball (period dress only.)
Leroy Moton is the young Black man that was with Viola Liuzzo when she was shot
and killed while driving down Highway 80 in Lowndes County, Alabama. It was the
last day of the historical Selma to Montgomery Freedom March of 1965. Viola and
Leroy were both soldiers in the Second Civil War that was fought one hundred
years later.
An all white jury set her killers free, even though the F.B.I. knew they were
guilty, because the F.B.I. had a paid informer in the murder car. No one has
paid for her brutal murder. The four men arrested were later tried on a civil
rights charge. The Liuzzo family tried to sue the United States Government, but
lost in what must be the most ludicrous decision in American court history. The
judge ruled that the family could not prove that the F.B.I. informer was the one
who pulled the trigger.
From the book. . .
"When I hear that solicitor say, 'OK, now bring in the nigger,' I know he gonna
try me stead of the four that was arrested for the murder. That's just what he
did," Leroy said.
The Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Robert Shelton Jr., said, "I have
evidence that the deaths of Viola Liuzzo and the Reverend James Reeb had been
planned by Communists to blacken the reputation of the Klan." He never produced
the evidence.
The author was a member of the
Freedom March security team.
This is not a book about murder. It is about America, then and now. It is a
history book that should be in every school library.
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lecture circuit details:
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