Viola Liuzzo in Civil Rights Movement: "Black Power" Era
Viola Liuzzo (1925–1965) was a white civil rights activist from Detroit, Michigan. A wife and a mother of five, Liuzzo was murdered by Klansmen after the 1965 voting rights march in Selma, Alabama.
On March 25th, 1965, a group of Ku Klu Klan members shot and killed Viola Liuzzo as she was driving marchers from Montgomery to Selma, Alabama.