Civil rights activists Viola Liuzzo and Patricia Swift Blalock will be honored at the Selma Interpretive Center this Saturday on March 14 alongside the 19th amendment centennial.
Liuzzo was a mother of five children and an activist who was killed in 1965 by members of the Ku Klux Klan as she was shuttling marchers from Montgomery to Selma during the demonstrations.
Two of her children, Mary Liuzzo Lilliboe and Tony Liuzzo, will speak at the event.
Blalock was a native of Gadsden who worked for the Selma Public Library and successfully pushed for desegregating it in 1963. She died in 2011 at the age of 97. Her family will be present to speak about her experiences.
The event will take place at 2 p.m. and is free to the public. The Selma Interpretive Center is located at 2 Broad St.
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