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Liuzzo, Viola, 1925-1965

Biography:

Viola Gregg Liuzzo (April 11, 1925-March 25, 1965) was a white civil rights activist from the U.S. state of Michigan and mother of five, who was murdered by Ku Klux Klan members after the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama. One of the Klansmen in the car from which the shots were fired was an FBI informant, and the FBI carried out a smear campaign against Liuzzo after her death. Liuzzo's name is one of those inscribed on a civil rights memorial in the state capital.

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Alabama Media Group Collection (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
  • Civil rights leaders laying a wreath at the site of Viola Liuzzo's murder in rural Lowndes County, Alabama, during the 20th anniversary reenactment of the Selma to Montgomery March. (Negatives (photographs))
• Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive (University of Southern Mississippi Libraries)
  • Letter, Nancy and Gene Turitz to Friends; July 4, [1965?] (Text)
• Encyclopedia of Alabama (Encyclopedia of Alabama)
  • Modern Civil Rights Movement in Alabama (Articles)
  • Viola Gregg Liuzzo (Articles)
• FBI Freedom of Information Act Collection (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
  • Viola Liuzzo Murder (Federal government records)
• Freedom Riders' 40th Anniversary Oral History Project, 2001 (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
  • Oral history interview with James Forman, 2001 (MovingImage)
• Freedom summer digital collection (Wisconsin Historical Society)
  • CORE--Staff meetings (Canton and Meridian, CORE and COFO) - Minutes 1964 Jan., Feb., Aug.-1965 April, June (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 4, Segment 90) (Minutes (administrative records))
  • CORE--Violence and harassment summary reports (Southern Regional Council, COFO, SNCC, CORE), 1963-1965 (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 4, Segment 94) (Clippings (information artifacts))
  • DeMuth--Jerry DeMuth papers, 1962-1987 (Archives Main Stacks, SC3065) (Periodicals)
  • Goodman--National clippings and loose clippings (Carolyn Goodman papers, 1964-2000; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 833, Reel 1b) (Clippings (information artifacts))
  • Goodman--New York newspaper clippings (Carolyn Goodman papers, 1964-2000; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 833, Reel 1a) (Clippings (information artifacts))
  • MFDP--Clippings, 1964-1970 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party records, 1962-1971; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 788, Reel 2, Segment 5) (Clippings (information artifacts))
  • MFDP--General papers, 1963-1965, part 2 (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party records, 1962-1971; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 788, Reel 1, Segment 2, Part 2) (Memorandums)
  • Montgomery--Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (Lucile Montgomery papers, 1963-1967; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 44, Reel 1, Segment 17) (Correspondence)
  • Poor People's Corporation--News clippings, 1964-1966 (Poor People's Corporation records, 1960-1967; Archives Main Stacks, MSS 172 Box 1, Folder 6;) (Clippings (information artifacts))
  • SEDFRE--Press Releases 1963-1966 (CORE) (Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality records, 1944-1976; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 546, Box 31, Folder 16)Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality records, 1944-1976; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 546, Box 31 Folder 16 (Press releases)
  • Werner--COFO and SNCC pamphlets, newspaper clippings, conference proceedings, and press releases, 1963-1965 (Hank Werner papers; Z: Accessions, M71-358, Box 2, Folder 6) (Pamphlets)
  • Young--Medical Committee for Human Rights clippings, press releases, 1964-1965, 1967 (Quentin Young papers, 1964-1975; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 880, Box 4, Folder 8) (Press releases)
• March on Milwaukee: Civil Rights History Project (Golda Meir Library (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries))
  • Oral History Interview with Margaret (Peggy) Rozga, August 19, 2008, part I (Audio)
• Viola Liuzzo Collection (Levi Watkins Learning Center (Alabama State University))
• Voices of Civil Rights (Library of Congress)
  • This is a general view of the scene where Michigan civil rights worker, Mrs. Viola Liuzzo was slain late March 25, 1965 Lowndesboro, Alabama (Black-and-white photographs)
• WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)
  • WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking about ongoing discrimination and the benefits of nonviolence, Atlanta, Georgia, 1965 November 10 (Moving images)
  • WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking about ongoing discrimination and the benefits of nonviolence, Atlanta, Georgia, 1965 November 10 (News)