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Viola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo

Case from Selma, AL dated Mar 25, 1965

Victim Details

Viola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo

Male

White / Caucasian

Selma

AL

1965-03-25

39

Viola

Fauver Gregg Liuzzo

Yes

06/23/2026

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Viola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo, a 39-year-old white woman, was a mother of five from Detroit, Michigan, who traveled to Alabama in March 1965 to participate in the Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches. On the night of March 25, 1965, after the successful conclusion of the march, Liuzzo was shuttling fellow activists from Montgomery back to Selma in her Oldsmobile. Accompanying her was a young African American man named Leroy Moton. As they drove along Highway 80, a car carrying four members of t ...
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