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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

• 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 (University of Mississippi Libraries)
  • Oral history interview with James Forman, 2001 (MovingImage)
• March on Milwaukee: Civil Rights History Project (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries)
  • Oral History Interview with Margaret (Peggy) Rozga, August 19, 2008, part I (Sound)
• Viola Liuzzo Collection (Levi Watkins Learning Center (Alabama State University))
• Voices of Freedom: The Virginia Civil Rights Movement (Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries)
  • 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)