Eastern Michigan University is co-sponsoring an event this Saturday exploring the relationship between Detroit and Selma, Alabama in the civil rights movement.
In 1965, Detroiters traveled to Selma to support the fight for civil rights after Detroit native Viola Liuzzo was murdered by the KKK.
Dr. Peter Blackmer, an assistant professor of Africology and African American Studies, says the event highlights Detroit’s role in the civil rights movement past and present.
“Detroiters heeded the call to join the civil rights moment and traveled south to organize in Selma. Miss Liuzzo went south but also Detroiters like Martha Prescod Norman Nooman, who’s speaking at the event.”
The event will be held Saturday, September 14th, at Wayne State University and on Zoom starting at 10 AM.
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