• Viola Fauver Liuzzo (née Gregg; April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was an American civil rights activist in Detroit, Michigan. She was known for going to...
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  • in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four young girls; the murder of Viola Liuzzo near Selma in 1965, and the lynching of teenager Michael Donald in Mobile...
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  • particularly controversial 1965 incident, white civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo was murdered by Ku Klux Klansmen, who gave chase and fired shots into...
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  • he testified against fellow Klansmen who were accused of killing Viola Gregg Liuzzo, a civil rights volunteer. He was accused of being an accessory to...
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    Viola Liuzzo Story". Archived from the original on February 23, 2006. Mary Stanton (2000). From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo....
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    —On the FBI's targeting of Viola Liuzzo In one particularly controversial 1965 incident, white civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo was murdered by Ku Klux Klansmen...
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  • against white activists involved in the civil rights movement such as Viola Liuzzo, James Groppi, Bill Baxley, and Jonathan Daniels. The term "white niggers"...
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  • Selma to Montgomery march. About playing Liuzzo, Ochs said "A lot of this history was new to me. Viola Liuzzo was new to me. I did my research, dug in...
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    operatives. Viola Liuzzo – Gary Thomas Rowe, an FBI informant who at the time was also an active member of the Ku Klux Klan, assisted in the murder of Viola Liuzzo...
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  • Bernard Lee Sanford R. Leigh Jim Letherer Stanley Levison John Lewis Viola Liuzzo Z. Alexander Looby Joseph Lowery Clara Luper Danny Lyon Malcolm X Mae...
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  • an unidentified black man and had been an accessory to the murder of Viola Liuzzo. Investigative records show that Rowe had twice failed polygraph tests...
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    figure Viola Hashe (1926–1977), South African anti-apartheid activist Viola Hill (1892-?), American suffragist and music director Viola Liuzzo, Unitarian...
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    2006 Cynthia Yao Mary Esther Daddazio Margery Feliksa Nancy Hammond Viola Liuzzo Marge Piercy Dora Hall Stockman Martha Strickland Clark Helen Hornbeck...
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    Mississippi policeman and sheriff's deputy. The 1965 Alabama murder of Viola Liuzzo. She was a Southern-raised Detroit mother of five who was visiting the...
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    2006 Cynthia Yao Mary Esther Daddazio Margery Feliksa Nancy Hammond Viola Liuzzo Marge Piercy Dora Hall Stockman Martha Strickland Clark Helen Hornbeck...
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  • prostitution. Recy Taylor Rape in the United States Fannie Lou Hamer Viola Liuzzo Joan Little "'It Was like All of Us Had Been Raped': Sexual Violence...
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  • King to postpone the next march. Numerous white Americans, including Viola Liuzzo, Archbishop Iakovos, and James Reeb, arrive to join the second march...
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    his book The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo, Gary May notes that Edwards became prominent at a time when the Klan...
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    2006 Cynthia Yao Mary Esther Daddazio Margery Feliksa Nancy Hammond Viola Liuzzo Marge Piercy Dora Hall Stockman Martha Strickland Clark Helen Hornbeck...
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    Wallace's secretaries appeared and took the petition. Later that night, Viola Liuzzo, a white mother of five from Detroit who had come to Alabama to support...
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    Bernard Lee Sanford R. Leigh Jim Letherer Stanley Levison John Lewis Viola Liuzzo Z. Alexander Looby Joseph Lowery Clara Luper Danny Lyon Malcolm X Mae...
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  • United States portal Biography portal Civil rights movement portal Viola Liuzzo William Lewis Moore Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner List of...
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    Bernard Lee Sanford R. Leigh Jim Letherer Stanley Levison John Lewis Viola Liuzzo Z. Alexander Looby Joseph Lowery Clara Luper Danny Lyon Malcolm X Mae...
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    the day were marred by the murder of Viola Liuzzo, a white, 39-year-old Detroit homemaker with five children. Liuzzo was shot dead by Ku Klux Klan members...
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    Jackson Martin Luther King Jr. Bruce W. Klunder George W. Lee Herbert Lee Viola Liuzzo Denise McNair Delano Herman Middleton Charles Eddie Moore Oneal Moore...
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  • May, Gary. The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo. Yale University Press, 2005. ISBN 0300129998 McWhorter, Diane. Carry...
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    Bernard Lee Sanford R. Leigh Jim Letherer Stanley Levison John Lewis Viola Liuzzo Z. Alexander Looby Joseph Lowery Clara Luper Danny Lyon Malcolm X Mae...
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    2006 Cynthia Yao Mary Esther Daddazio Margery Feliksa Nancy Hammond Viola Liuzzo Marge Piercy Dora Hall Stockman Martha Strickland Clark Helen Hornbeck...
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    Bernard Lee Sanford R. Leigh Jim Letherer Stanley Levison John Lewis Viola Liuzzo Z. Alexander Looby Joseph Lowery Clara Luper Danny Lyon Malcolm X Mae...
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    Jackson Martin Luther King Jr. Bruce W. Klunder George W. Lee Herbert Lee Viola Liuzzo Carol Denise McNair Delano Herman Middleton Charles Eddie Moore Oneal...
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