Viola Liuzzo was a 39-year-old activist and mother from Detroit who was committed enough to civil rights to drive to Alabama to be part of the movement. After one of the the historic marches from Selma to Montgomery, she helped shuttle other protestors to the airport. On one drive, with her black colleague Leroy Moton, a car full of Klu Klux Klansmen ran her off the road and shot her in the head, killing her. She was the only white woman to die in the civil rights movement.
