While Liuzzo is the only white woman honored at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, 55 years after her murder, she remains an enigma. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke at Liuzzo’s funeral, and ...

Viola Gregg Liuzzo will be honored Friday with a posthumous doctor of laws degree by Wayne State University, but there are many other activities this week that will allow people to pay homage to the ...

Police are seeking information about a 16-year-old girl who went missing in Detroit. Read full article: Detroit police want help finding missing 16-year-old girl Police are seeking information about a ...

Viola Liuzzo was a wife and mother of five when she was compelled to join the civil rights effort after witnessing the televised assault on protesters in Selma 58 years ago. Her son, Anthony Liuzzo, ...

DETROIT (AP) - A nonprofit will receive $125,000 to help beautify a Detroit park named for a mother slain while shuttling demonstrators after the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march.

Neighbors, supporters and city officials on Tuesday kicked off the restoration of a park on Detroit's west side that is named for Viola Liuzzo, a white Detroit woman who was killed in Alabama as she ...

From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo will tell the story of the wife and mother of five who died due to her affiliation with the civil rights movement. She was shot and killed by ...

A monument was unveiled Thursday in Detroit to commemorate a white mother who was slain in Alabama while shuttling demonstrators after the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march, along with the ...

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