The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo Contributor(s): May, Gary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300184131 ISBN-13: 9780300184136 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $58.41 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General - Biography & Autobiography - History |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.44 lbs) 448 pages |
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Publisher Description: In The Informant, historian Gary May reveals the untold story of the murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo, shot to death by members of the violent Birmingham Ku Klux Klan at the end of Martin Luther King's historic Voting Rights March in 1965. The case drew national attention and was solved almost instantly, because one of the Klansman present during the shooting was Gary Thomas Rowe, an undercover FBI informant. At the time, Rowe's information and subsequent testimony were heralded as a triumph of law enforcement. But as Gary May reveals in this provocative and powerful book, Rowe's history of collaboration with both the Klan and the FBI was far more complex. |