Viola Gregg Liuzzo

Viola Liuzzo (1925-1965) aided protesters during the civil rights movement of the early 1960s in Alabama. She was killed in a Ku Klux Klan attack in 1965 and is the only white woman honored at the Montgomery Civil Rights Memorial.

Viola Gregg Liuzzo, civil rights activist killed by the Ku Klux Klan after a voting rights march in Alabama
Courtesy of Penny Liuzzo Herrington and Mary Stanton
Viola Gregg Liuzzo, civil rights activist killed by the Ku Klux Klan after a voting rights march in Alabama