Viola Liuzzo

Viola Gregg Liuzzo (April 11, 1925 - March 25, 1965) was a civil-rights activist who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan while driving Leroy Moton, a young African-American, from a civil-rights march in Selma, Alabama. Collie Leroy Wilkins was convicted of a federal charge of violating Liuzzo's civil rights in a case prosecuted by John Doar.

She was a Unitarian housewife from Detroit, and the mother of five children.

External links

• Viola Liuzzo biography at the Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography
• Documentary Film "Home of the Brave"
• Detroit News article "Viola Liuzzo's family reunites for movie, but questions remain" September 30, 2004

References

• From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo by Mary Stanton
• Murder on the Highway: The Viola Liuzzo Story by Beatrice Siegel