- Collection:
- Encyclopedia of Alabama
- Title:
- Viola Gregg Liuzzo
- Creator:
- Stanton, Mary
- Date of Original:
- 2007-10-24
- Subject:
- Civil rights workers--Alabama
Civil rights workers--Michigan
Assassination--Alabama--Lowndesboro
Shooting (Execution)--Alabama--Lowndesboro
Women civil rights workers--Alabama
Women civil rights workers--Michigan
Civil rights workers--Violence against--Alabama--Lowndesboro
Homicide--Alabama--Lowndesboro
Women--Death
Women--Violence against--Alabama--Lowndesboro
Revolvers--Alabama--Lowndesboro
Gunshot wounds--Alabama--Lowndesboro
Assassination--Investigation--Alabama--Lowndesboro
Murder--Investigation--Alabama--Lowndesboro
Criminal investigation--Alabama--Lowndesboro
Violent deaths--Alabama--Lowndesboro
Political violence--Alabama--Lowndesboro
Mobs--Alabama--Lowndesboro
Civil rights--Alabama--Lowndesboro
Intervention (Federal government)--Alabama--Lowndesboro
Violence--Alabama--Lowndesboro
Governmental investigations--Alabama--Lowndesboro
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) - People:
- Liuzzo, Viola, 1925-1965
Liuzzo, Viola, 1925-1965--Assassination - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Lowndes County, 32.15475, -86.65011
United States, Alabama, Lowndes County, Lowndesboro, 32.27514, -86.61137
United States, Michigan, Wayne County, Detroit, 42.33143, -83.04575 - Medium:
- articles
interactive resource - Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Viola Liuzzo who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on the last night of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March. She is the only white woman honored at the Montgomery Civil Rights Memorial. Remembered primarily for the atmosphere of scandal surrounding her death, she is considered the most controversial of the civil rights martyrs.
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- http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1377
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