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Viola Gregg Liuzzo
25 Mar 1965
Highway 80, AL
Upset by television scenes of voting rights marchers being beaten in Selma, 39-year-old Viola Liuzzo drove alone from Detroit to Alabama to volunteer in the Voting Rights March.
Ku Klux Klansmen shot the mother of five as she transported a marcher along the highway in Lowndes County. |