Family of Viola Liuzzo Recognizes Stolen Lives
April 13, 2015 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
Rev Roger Mohr of the First Unitarian-Universalist Church of Detroit, Tony Liuzzo. and Mary Liuzzo Lileboe.
Don Lee, Detroit historian and friend of the Liuzzo family, with the family.
Legendary civil right attorney Dean Robb and his wife.
Other participants in the church event.
Detroit, April 12, 2014—Today photos were taken of Liuzzo family members with the Stolen Lives banner at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church of Detroit. The family are here for a week of events honoring them and their mother, Viola Liuzzo. During the reception after the church service, this banner and another banner about "92 Lives..." were passed hand-to-hand as people took photos.
Present were Penny Liuzzo Herrington, Sally Liuzzo,Tony Liuzzo. and Mary Liuzzo Lileboe.
On March 25, 1965, on the final day of a four-day, 54-mile civil rights march from Selma, Alabama to the state capital in Montgomery, a car carrying four members of the KKK pulled next to a car carrying two civil rights workers, Viola Liuzzo, a 39-year-old white woman, and Leroy Moton, a 19-year-old Black man. The KKK racists fired at the car and the shots struck Viola in the head, killing her. For more on the life of this heroic woman, and her murder, see “Home of the Brave: The Defiant Spirit of Viola Liuzzo.”
Mary Liuzzo Lileboe described to us how she searched the internet for instance of unarmed innocent people recently killed by the police and within a short time found about 42 cases. She was angry and determined to play a role ending these police murders.
For more about what the family said at the church service, see a local newspaper report from the Detroit News.
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