C-SPAN2 talk with May moved to Sunday

5:05 p.m., Aug. 11, 2005--The talk by Gary May, professor of history at UD, about his new book, The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo, originally scheduled to be broadcast by C-SPAN2 Book TV on Saturday, Aug. 13, will now be shown at 8:15 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 14.

For more information, visit [www.booktv.org].

May’s talk was recorded July 28 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. The presentation was part of a program in observance of the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.

The murder of Viola Liuzzo, a white southern-born civil rights volunteer from Detroit and the mother of five, by the Klu Klux Klan is the subject of May’s book. Ms. Liuzzo was killed by white supremacists after participating in the Selma to Montgomery, Ala., march for voting rights, a landmark in the Civil Rights Movement. May’s book focuses on the involvement in the shooting of Gary Thomas Rowe, an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Published in June, May’s book has garnered favorable reviews nationwide.

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