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	Viola Liuzzo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Liuzzo's name is one of those inscribed on a civil rights memorial in the state capital.
		Liuzzo, like many Americans, was horrified by the images of the aborted march at the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7.
		Viola Liuzzo biography at the Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Viola_Liuzzo (1675 words)

	Uncommon Courage: The Viola Liuzzo Story: Planting Seeds Media
		Liuzzo when she was murdered; Pulitzer-prize winning historian Taylor Branch; Dr. Frederick Reese, a pastor, civil rights activist and educator who lives in Selma; and other experts and observers of the Selma experience.
		Liuzzo was, what motivated her to go to Selma, what her efforts meant to the civil rights and women's rights movements, and how her death impacted both movements.
		For some Viola Liuzzo became a martyr while others still believe "she got what she deserved." On March 25, 1965, Liuzzo and Leroy Moton, a young fl man, were on their way from Selma to Montgomery after the March.
	www.plantingseedsmedia.com /violaliuzzo.html (686 words)

	Viola Luzzo Forgotten Martyr \| MI Chronicle Web Edition
		Viola Liuzzo was the only white woman who lost her life in the struggle for civil rights.
		But Liuzzo's family and friends have never stopped mourning her death, and they have never stopped fighting to find out what really happened and to see to it that the truth was finally brought to light.
		Each of Liuzzo's five children was forced to deal with their mother's murder in their own way, and it is painfully evident that some have suffered far deeper scars than others.
	www.michchronicle.com /PAGES/09.27.2004/story4.html (1184 words)

	Viola Liuzzo - civil rights activist assasinated by KKK in 1965
		Viola Fauver Gregg was born in Pennsylvania in 1925.
		Liuzzo's friends knew her as a caring person who gave of herself without regard to public opinion, and her children were fiercely proud of their mother.
		Viola's dreams were finally made a reality because of her own coward murder, -the sad ending of the historical Selma to Montgomery march of 1965.
	www.geocities.com /gury4u/viola1.htm (2247 words)

	Viola Liuzzo Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Viola Liuzzo (1925-1965) was the first white woman killed during the American civil rights movement.
		Viola Gregg Liuzzo was born on April 11, 1925 in the small town of California, Pennsylvania.
		Liuzzo claimed to have stolen a microscope and insisted on being taken to the police station.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/viola-liuzzo (1701 words)

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		Liuzzo was killed, or in 1975, as plaintiffs argue, when information was disclosed which suggested a causative link between the conduct of FBI personnel and Mrs.
		Liuzzo was driving between the cities of Selma and Montgomery with a fl companion, Leroy Moten.
		Viola Liuzzo on a lonely road between Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, arrests were made a few minutes ago of four Ku Klux Klan members.
	www.icdc.com /~paulwolf/cointelpro/law/liuzzovus485FSupp1274.htm (6162 words)

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		Viola Liuzzo was born on April 11, 1925 in Pennsylvania.
		Also on March 7, 1965 Viola and her husband were watching the 11o'clock news and saw the first news clip of the state troopers attacking the marchers in Selma.
		President Johnson became outraged and instructed his officials to arrange for the men to be charged under the 1870 federal law of conspiring to deprive Viola Liuzzo of her civil rights.
	library.thinkquest.org /CR0214523/viola2.htm (373 words)

	Viola Liuzzo
		Viola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo (April 11, 1925-March 25, 1965), a Unitarian Universalist committed to work for education and economic justice, gave her life for the cause of civil rights.
		Viola was born on April 11, 1925, in California, Pennsylvania.
		Liuzzo was also active in local efforts on behalf of reform in education and economic justice.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/violaliuzzo.html (1800 words)

	uuworld.org : uu civil rights martyr posthumously honored
		Viola Liuzzo is honored as a civil rights martyr alongside the Rev. James Reeb and Jimmie Lee Jackson in a bronze memorial at UUA headquarters in Boston.
		Although Liuzzo was initially lauded as a hero by the local press after her death, the media soon began running stories that described her as a drug addict, sexually promiscuous, and a bad wife and mother.
		Liuzzo was born Viola Gregg in Pennsylvania in 1925.
	www.uuworld.org /news/articles/6962.shtml (956 words)

	The Murder of Viola Liuzzo - thatsalabama.com
		Viola Liuzzo was a 40 year-old housewife, and mother of five from Detroit, Michigan, who in the aftermath of the attack by state troopers on a peaceful voter's rights march in Selma, answered the call of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
		Viola Liuzzo's body was returned home to Detroit on March 27, 1965.
		The Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography - Viola Liuzzo.
	www.thatsalabama.com /civilwrongs/violaliuzzo (559 words)

	Historic showing of Viola Liuzzo documentary in Detroit
		Liuzzo was the only white woman killed during the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s.
		Viola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo was born on April 11, 1925, in California, Pennsylvania—a coal mining town—and was the daughter of a miner who lost his job when his hand was severed in an accident.
		Viola Liuzzo was a principled woman, irreconcilably hostile to any form of racial and social inequality and profoundly committed to democratic rights.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/sep2004/liuz-s29.shtml (1377 words)

	Home Of The Brave \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		The Klansmen who shot Liuzzo were quickly captured, but were just as quickly acquitted by a jury of their Alabama peers.
		There are multiple reasons for Liuzzo's obscurity, ranging from the American public's short attention span to what may have been a systematic campaign of character assassination by Hoover's staff.
		Liuzzo's non-traditional family and indifference to organized religion also made her a tough sell as a martyr.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/18145 (423 words)

	Biography Search Display (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Liuzzo was born and raised in the South and later came to Detroit, Michigan to raise her five children with her Teamster husband.
		Liuzzo was one of the few white casualties of the civil rights movement of the mid sixties.
		Along with a park named in her honor, Liuzzo's life was commemorated with a tree planting and memorial service organized by activists and her surviving children.
	www.daahp.wayne.edu /biographiesDisplay.asp?id=52 (365 words)

	Educational Media Reviews Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Liuzzo had come to Alabama to help in the civil rights struggle and was transporting a fl civil rights worker when she was killed.
		Liuzzo, not the one the FBI identified as the trigger man. But Rowe could not be charged because a federal judge ruled he still had immunity from prosecution as a result of testifying at the first trial.
		And a Liuzzo family lawsuit against the federal government, charging the FBI with culpability for the murder because Rowe was on its payroll and either pulled the trigger or did nothing to stop the killing, was dismissed, with the Liuzzo family told it should pay court costs for the trial.
	libweb.lib.buffalo.edu /emro/emroDetail.asp?Number=2021 (707 words)

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		Viola Liuzzo was hit in the head twice and died instantly.
		In an attempt to prejudice the case, rumors began to circulate that Viola was a member of the Communist Party and had abandoned her five children in order to have sexual relationships with African Americans involved in the civil rights movement.
		The FBI had reasons to circulate these rumors and to attempt to defame Viola: an FBI informant was in the car from which Liuzzo was shot and may have pulled the trigger.
	www.sarasota.usf.edu /StudentAffairs/LIUZZO.htm (423 words)

	Viola Liuzzo: 'We're going to change the world'
		Liuzzo was the only white woman to give her life during the Black civil-rights movement of the 1960s.
		Viola Liuzzo lived a life that combined the care of her family and her home with a concern for the world around her.
		Liuzzo herself was full of hope, and conscious that the future would include more than just her story.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/45a/638.html (1364 words)

	liuzzovus508FSupp923
		Liuzzo's death, regardless of the fact that the agent knew or should have known that violent and illegal acts would occur.
		Liuzzo's death, but rather is conduct which allegedly made her murder possible and proximately caused her death, plaintiffs' claims are not barred by s 2680(h).
		Liuzzo's murder must start with the general rule that, absent other factors, there is no duty to prevent the commission of a tort or a crime.
	www.icdc.com /~paulwolf/cointelpro/law/liuzzovus508FSupp923.htm (9120 words)

	Amazon.de: From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo: English Books: Mary Stanton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I remember the murder of Viola Liuzzo very well because her son Tommy was in my class at Precious Blood School in Detroit when it happened.
		The story of the Detroit houswife, Viola Liuzzo, who left her husband and five children to go off to Selma is lodged in the psyche somewhere of most people alive in those civil rights days of 1965.
		Mary Stanton is attracted to the Viola Liuzzo and the story of her family before and since her death.
	www.amazon.de /Selma-Sorrow-Death-Viola-Liuzzo/dp/0820322741 (1443 words)

	San Francisco International Film Festival 2004--Part 4 Viola Liuzzo: martyr in the struggle for social equality She ...
		While ferrying marchers back and forth from the airport on March 25, Viola Liuzzo, the 39-year-old wife of a Detroit Teamster official and mother of five was gunned down on a stretch of Alabama highway by a carload of Ku Klux Klan members, one of whom was an FBI informer, Gary Thomas Rowe.
		Viola was fascinated with the dialogues of the ancient Greek philosopher, Plato, and read essays by American philosopher Henry David Thoreau to her children.
		Viola’s uncommon cultural thirst was nurtured in the midst of social convulsions; her imagination and intellect stimulated by philosophers and writers, such as Plato and Thoreau.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/jun2004/spt4-j07.shtml (2545 words)

	UUSM - Services & Sermons
		Viola Liuzzo, a Unitarian Universalist, was killed in 1965, while transporting a civil rights worker on the road from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
		Viola Liuzzo became sensitized to racial injustice in the north when she moved to Detroit at the age of eighteen, during the Second World War.
		Viola Liuzzo's sacrifice moved the civil rights movement forward, but the loss her family suffered would have been irredeemable, had it not been for Sarah Evans.
	www.uusm.org /services/050805.php (1813 words)

	Synopsis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Viola Liuzzo was a 39 year-old Detroit Teamster’s wife and mother of five, who joined thousands of people converging in Selma, Alabama for the march on Montgomery, led by Martin Luther King in ’65.
		Liuzzo’s death came at a pivotal moment in the civil right movement, when President Johnson had been fighting an uphill battle to push the Voter’s Rights Act through Congress.
		Immediately following her murder, Liuzzo became the target of a smear campaign, mounted by J Edgar Hoover and the FBI, as a means of diverting attention from the fact that a key FBI informant was in the car with Liuzzo’s killers.
	www.emergingpictures.com /hotb_synopsis.htm (501 words)

	Amazon.fr : Murder on the Highway: The Viola Liuzzo Story: Livres en anglais: Beatrice Siegel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But she falters with overblown prose, as when describing Liuzzo, a Michigan housewife: "There were days when her enormous energy drained away, leaving her as limp as a flower tossed by the wind." Elsewhere, the narrative is unnecessarily simplified: "40,000 members of the Klan.
		Viola Liuzzo, a young mother of five from Detroit, was shot and killed while driving an African-American organizer home after the 1965 march from Selma, Alabama, to Birmingham.
		In this biography, her life is placed within the context of the entire movement, as well as that of the Selma march.
	www.amazon.fr /Murder-Highway-Viola-Liuzzo-Story/dp/0027826325 (511 words)

	Documentary on Liuzzo shows at film festival - March 20, 2005
		In the film, daughter Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe of Grants Pass retraces her mother’s steps from Detroit to Alabama, where her mother was killed on March 25, 1965.
		Viola Liuzzo was born on April 11, 1925, in California, Penn. After her father lost his hand along with his job in a mining accident, the family traveled south into Tennessee and Georgia, where they witnessed poverty and racial discrimination.
		After participating with daughter Penny and 250 Wayne students in a sympathy march for the protesters, Liuzzo told her husband she was going to Selma for a week to join in the march to Montgomery to help the voting rights effort.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/2005/0320/local/stories/02local.htm (681 words)

	Viola Liuzzo
		The town was Selma and one of those heroes and martyrs was a Detroit housewife named Viola Liuzzo.
		The clash on the Edmund Pettus Bridge outside Selma on March 7 of that year was captured dramatically on network television and focused the eyes of the nation for the first time on the brutality that fls still faced from their own local governments in the south.
		Martin Luther King had organized the march with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, to draw attention to the plight of fls who were denied the right to vote.
	www.africanaonline.com /viola.htm (251 words)

	Viola Liuzzo Summary
		Liuzzo converted to Catholicism and married him in 1950.
		Rowe's presence in the car was the principal reason why the crime was solved so quickly." In August 1983, the FBI was awarded US$79,873 in court costs, however costs were later reduced to $3,645 after the ACLU appealed on behalf of the family.
		The family's oldest son, Thomas, moved down to Alabama in 1978 and legally changed his last name to Lee in 1982 after constant questions about whether he was related to the civil rights martyr.
	www.bookrags.com /Viola_Liuzzo (3178 words)

	Amazon.de: Murder on the Highway: The Viola Liuzzo Story: English Books: Beatrice Siegel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Viola Liuzzo was a 39-year-old white woman, a mother of five who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan for her part in the 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
		Siegel frames Liuzzo's personal story with a general history of segregation and the African American struggle for the right to vote.
		The writing is sometimes dull, but the political material is compelling, and Siegel does give some sense of Liuzzo as ordinary woman and as "saint," her problems as well as her idealism.
	www.amazon.de /Murder-Highway-Viola-Liuzzo-Story/dp/0027826325 (505 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Informant: The FBI, The Ku Klux Klan, And The Murder Of Viola Liuzzo: Livres en anglais: Gary May (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		While slain activist Viola Liuzzo is far from a household name today, her murder in 1965 at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan immediately after the Selma, Ala., voting rights march was a national sensation.
		The civil rights movement had all too many martyrs, and Viola Liuzzo long ago disappeared into the crowd, even though she was distinguished by being white and a woman, and though a biography of her was published seven years ago.
		Rowe's role in the murder of Viola Liuzzo is equally murky.
	www.amazon.fr /Informant-Klux-Murder-Viola-Liuzzo/dp/0300106351 (1599 words)

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