Viola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo (April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was a civil rights activist from the U.S. state of Michigan and mother of five, who was murdered by Ku Klux Klan members after the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama. One of the Klansmen in the car from which the shots were fired was a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant. Liuzzo's name is one of those inscribed on a civil rights memorial in the state capital. She die...
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Viola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo (April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was a civil rights activist from the U.S. state of Michigan and mother of five, who was murdered by Ku Klux Klan members after the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama. One of the Klansmen in the car from which the shots were fired was a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant. Liuzzo's name is one of those inscribed on a civil rights memorial in the state capital. She died at the age of 39.
Viola Gregg was born in California, Pennsylvania, later moving with her family to Chattanooga, Tennessee at the age of six. After just one year of high school, she dropped out, was married in 1941 at the age of 16, then divorced within a year. In 1943, she married George Argyris, with this marriage lasting seven years and producing two children. She later married Anthony Liuzzo, a Teamsters union business agent.
While raising a family that added three more children, Liuzzo sought to return to school, attending the Carnegie...
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