August 11, 2011 - 7:41pm
"(Her) devotion was evident from her active roles in the NAACP, the Louisville Urban League, as well as organizations she led, including those which empowered African Americans to exercise their most fundamental freedom at a time when it was unpopular and even dangerous to do so."
Sometime in the early hours of August 5, 1965, someone murdered Alberta Jones and tossed her body off Louisville’s Sherman Minton Bridge, into the waters of the Ohio River. Police at the time attributed her death to drowning, but an autopsy also indicated the 35-year-old African-...
