Social Reformer. Viola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo was born in Pennsylvania on April 11, 1925. The mother of five children, she volunteered for Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
On March 25, 1965 she joined Martin Luther King's Selma Voting Rights March in Alabama, which was organized following the March 7, 1965 Bloody Sunday event at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Later that night, she was assassinated by members of the Ku Klux Klan while driving a fellow marcher.
Liuzzo's murder moved President Lyndon Johnson to order a federal investigation of the Ku Klux Klan and to petition Congress to expand the Federal Conspiracy Act of 1870 to make the murder of civil rights activists a federal crime. Her death increased congressional support for the passage of the Voting Rights Act. In addition to other honors, her name is inscribed on the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery.
On March 25, 1965 she joined Martin Luther King's Selma Voting Rights March in Alabama, which was organized following the March 7, 1965 Bloody Sunday event at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Later that night, she was assassinated by members of the Ku Klux Klan while driving a fellow marcher.
Liuzzo's murder moved President Lyndon Johnson to order a federal investigation of the Ku Klux Klan and to petition Congress to expand the Federal Conspiracy Act of 1870 to make the murder of civil rights activists a federal crime. Her death increased congressional support for the passage of the Voting Rights Act. In addition to other honors, her name is inscribed on the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery.
Social Reformer. Viola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo was born in Pennsylvania on April 11, 1925. The mother of five children, she volunteered for Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
On March 25, 1965 she joined Martin Luther King's Selma Voting Rights March in Alabama, which was organized following the March 7, 1965 Bloody Sunday event at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Later that night, she was assassinated by members of the Ku Klux Klan while driving a fellow marcher.
Liuzzo's murder moved President Lyndon Johnson to order a federal investigation of the Ku Klux Klan and to petition Congress to expand the Federal Conspiracy Act of 1870 to make the murder of civil rights activists a federal crime. Her death increased congressional support for the passage of the Voting Rights Act. In addition to other honors, her name is inscribed on the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery.
On March 25, 1965 she joined Martin Luther King's Selma Voting Rights March in Alabama, which was organized following the March 7, 1965 Bloody Sunday event at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Later that night, she was assassinated by members of the Ku Klux Klan while driving a fellow marcher.
Liuzzo's murder moved President Lyndon Johnson to order a federal investigation of the Ku Klux Klan and to petition Congress to expand the Federal Conspiracy Act of 1870 to make the murder of civil rights activists a federal crime. Her death increased congressional support for the passage of the Voting Rights Act. In addition to other honors, her name is inscribed on the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery.
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LIUZZO
VIOLA G.
1926 - 1965
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