Viola Gregg Liuzzo

In 1965, thirty-nine-year-old, white social justice warrior Viola Gregg Liuzzo, Detroit wife, and mother of five young children, answered the call to travel South to support fair and safe voting rights for Black Americans. Viola Liuzzo drove from Detroit to Alabama to help in the planning of the Selma march and to participate in the Selma to Montgomery march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. 

Liuzzo used her car to transport participants to the airport. On a return trip, Mrs. Liuzzo’s car was fired upon by occupants in another car that had been tailing her.  Four KKK members were inside that vehicle. One of them was an FBI informant. None of the men was convicted of Liuzzo’s murder. 

The FBI manufactured the controversy surrounding Ms. Liuzzo’s murder by besmirching her character. When dealing with Civil Rights activists, such fictions by the FBI under Herbert Hoover's leadership were not uncommon. Read more about the true history of the movement and this amazing, selfless mother, wife, and activist who stood up to the wrongs she witnessed. May she never be lost to history.