Photo, Print, Drawing Jury Hayneville, Alabama / Brodie '65.
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Title
- Jury Hayneville, Alabama / Brodie '65.
Summary
- Drawing shows the all-white, all-male jury for on the trials for the Ku Klux Klan members accussed of killing Viola Liuzzo, a white civil rights volunteer who had driven an African American teenager, Leroy Moton, back to Selma from Montgomery, Alabama.
Names
- Brodie, Howard, 1915-2010, artist
Created / Published
- [Place not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [1965]
Headings
- - Liuzzo, Viola,--1925-1965
- - Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
- - Selma to Montgomery Rights March--(1965 :--Selma, Ala.)
- - Judicial proceedings--Alabama--Hayneville--1960-1970
- - Juries--Alabama--Hayneville--1960-1970
- - Homicides--Alabama--1960-1970
Format Headings
- Courtroom sketches--1960-1970.
- Drawings--1960-1970.
Genre
- Courtroom sketches--1960-1970
- Drawings--1960-1970
Notes
- - Caption label from exhibit Drawing Justice: All White Jury Frees Klan Members. Civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo was shot and killed on March 25, 1965, as she drove African American civil rights marcher Leroy Moton in her car from Montgomery to Selma, Alabama. Four Ku Klux Klan members, Eugene Thomas, William Eaton, Collie Leroy Wilkins, Jr., and Thomas Rowe, Jr., were arrested and tried. Artist Howard Brodie drew the all-white, all-male jury that served at one of the multiple trials. While Rowe, an FBI informant, received immunity for his testimony, Thomas, Eaton and Wilkins, were acquitted in state trials. On December 3, 1965, the three men received ten-year sentences on a federal charge of conspiracy to deprive Liuzzo of her civil rights. As a result of Liuzzo's death, President Johnson petitioned Congress to increase the scope of the Federal Conspiracy Act of 1870 to include the death of civil rights workers. Her death also helped raise support for the passage of the Voting Rights Act, Pub. L. 89-110.
- - Title from item.
- - Signed on lower right.
- - Inscribed in ink on lower right corner: #2.
- - Gift; Howard Brodie; (DLC/PP-1975:216)
- - Exhibited: "Drawing Justice" at the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C., April - October 2017.
- - C1, F2
Medium
- 1 drawing on white paper : crayon ; sheet 45.5 x 61.1 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1975:216 [item] [P&P]
Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
- ppmsca 51118 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.51118
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2017645101
Reproduction Number
- LC-DIG-ppmsca-51118 (digital file from original drawing)
Rights Advisory
- Publication may be restricted. For information see "Howard Brodie (1915-2010) Rights and Restrictions Information," https://aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/res/435_brod.html
Access Advisory
- Served by appointment (Unprocessed). To make a request, see "Access to Unprocessed Materials," https://aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/info/022_unpr.html
Online Format
- image