#Viola Liuzzo

[veryverytemporary]

Remembering Viola Liuzzo, born Viola Gregg on 11 April 1925 in California, Pennsylvania. Having grown up in poverty in the segregated South, Liuzzo became involved in the Civil Rights Movement, first in Detroit, eventually volunteering to support the Selma-to-Montgomery March in March 1965, after two prior marches had been violently stopped by police and state troopers, ready to riot. After the march, on 25 March 1965, members of the KKK gunned her down in her car while ferrying marchers back to Selma.

The murder of Viola Liuzzo by the klan + statues & remembrance

[velvetvexations]

you become the target of so much vitriol for protecting a group that you are not a part of and you deal with that hatred so well. thank you.

I will forever and always aspire to the examples of people like Viola Liuzzo and Émile Zola. As should we all!

[antifainternational]

How are you helping the women's liberation movement? Such a access to abortion clinics and so on... I rarely see you post anything that has to do with women unless it's about trans women and other non-binary afabs...

Hey there Anon, we are an anti-fascist social media collective consisting of ten people in eight countries. We've been doing our thing since 2014. In that time we have: -been documenting and tracking hate-motivated violence targeting women. -provided legal defence funding to 100 feminists arrested in Germany for stopping a fascist march against abortion access (via The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund) -provided additional support (via the Defence Fund) to this teacher, this other teacher, this woman, this community college staffer, this PNW woman, this waitress, Louise Thundercloud, two moms in SC, this victim of the 2017 Charlottesville terror attack, this BLM defender, Lina, Alissa Azar, Kita and Xvedia, Tabitha, and this Filipina activist, among others. -profiled anti-fascists like Marina Abiol, Hedy Epstein, Jane Elliot, Leah Feldman, Giovanina Berneri, Zora Neale Hurston, Ida B. Wells, Yuri Kochiyam, Natalie Tran, Elizabeth Mironova, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Magda, Arundhati Roy, Anastasia Baburova, Zinaida Portnova, Marina Ginestà, Heather McGhee, Akilah Green, Fanya Schoonheyt, Sophie Scholl, Tina Anselmi, Faye Schulman, Hanna Bohman, Viola Liuzzo, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, Maria Kislyak, Maria Dimadi, Georgette Kokoczinski, Irma Bandiera, Franceska Mann, Rebecca West, Lepa Radic, Giovannina Caleffi, and Audrey Hepburn, among others. Still, we could be posting more, of course! Why don't you tag us on posts from your tumblr you think we should reblog/signal boost? (finally, we get a whiff of "all lives matter/TERFishness from your objections about us not posting enough about "women" except for "trans women" - we hope that's not how you intended your msg!

[gonzalo-obes]

IMAGENES Y DATOS INTERESANTES DEL DIA 3 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023

Domingo de Adviento, Día Internacional de las Personas con Discapacidad, Día Internacional del Médico, Día Internacional del Cine 3D, Día Mundial del no uso de Plaguicidas, Día Europeo del Síndrome de Marfan, Año Internacional del Mijo y Año Internacional del Diálogo como Garantía de Paz.

Nuestra Señora del Sol, San Javier, San Francisco Javier, Santa Magina y Santa Atalia.

Tal día como hoy en el año 1989

En el buque soviético Máximo Gorki, fondeado frente a las costas de Malta durante la Cumbre entre el presidente norteamericano George Bush (padre) y el líder soviético Mijail Gorbachov, se anuncia el fin de la Guerra Fría. La reunión, que tiene lugar 3 semanas y media después de la caída del muro de Berlín, sirve para comentar los vertiginosos cambios que se están viviendo en Europa y proponer estrategias de futuro. (Hace 34 años)

1984

Un escape de 45 toneladas de isocianato de metilo, un gas letal, de la fábrica de pesticidas de Union Carbide en Bhopal, India, se extiende sobre una zona poblada, lo que provoca entre 15.000 y 20.000 muertes directas y deja también alrededor de medio millón de afectados con dolencias médicas crónicas. En 2010 un tribunal indio condenará a 8 directivos a 2 años de prisión y una pequeña multa. (Hace 39 años)

1967

Con un gran interés internacional y por primera vez en la historia de la Medicina, el cirujano Christian Barnard, asistido por un equipo especializado compuesto por 20 personas, y tras más de ocho horas en el quirófano, transplanta el corazón a Louis Washkanzy de 50 años, por el de una joven de 25 muerta en accidente de tráfico. Dieciocho días después, Louis fallecerá de neumonía debido a la debilidad de su sistema inmunológico por los fármacos ingeridos para la operación. (Hace 56 años)

1965

Por primera vez en la historia de los tribunales de Estados Unidos, un jurado completamente blanco del sur del estado de Alabama, condena a tres miembros del Ku Klux Klan por el asesinato de la activista de derechos civiles blanca, Viola Liuzzo, madre de cinco niños de Detroit, que fue asesinada a tiros cuando circulaba en su coche con un joven activista negro, Leroy Moton, de regreso a la ciudad de Selma a raíz de una marcha de protesta a la capital del estado de Montgomery el 25 de marzo, cuando otro coche se colocó al lado del suyo y la dispararon dos veces en la cabeza muriendo instantáneamente. Su auto se salió de la carretera y se estrelló, pero Leroy Moton resultó ileso. Por todo ello, en el día de hoy, Colie Leroy Wilkins, de 22 años, Eugene Thomas, de 42, y William Eaton, de 41, son condenados por un tribunal federal por conspiración al violar los derechos constitucionales de la señora Liuzzo de 39 años, condenándoles al máximo de 10 años de prisión, al no poder sentenciarlos por cargo de asesinato ya que el homicidio no se encuentra dentro de la jurisdicción federal. (Hace 58 años)

1810

En el Oceáno Índico, y tras haber pertenecido a Francia desde 1718, es en el día de hoy cuando los ingleses invaden isla Mauricio. Tres días más tarde, el 6 de diciembre, las tropas francesas capitularán ante el vicealmirante Albemarle Bertie, significando la pérdida de la posesión a favor de los británicos. Mauricio se independizará del Reino Unido el 12 de marzo de 1968 convirtiéndose en una democracia estable que respetará los derechos humanos y atraerá por ello inversiones extranjeras, lo que le hará poseer una de las rentas per cápita más altas del continente africano. (Hace 213 años)

[evilkitten3]

are you implying the american government might have a vested interest in not being one hundred percent honest about the rest of the world at all times

Okay, for nine months now we’ve all seen firsthand how American media lies and spreads misinformation about the situation in Palestine and what’s really going on over there. Have you stopped yet to consider what other countries American media is lying to you about?

[leaarongmail-blog]

Medal of Honor Recipient: Viola Liuzzo

[protoslacker]

Viola Liuzzo

I saw on Twitter a reporter speaking with Jocelyn Benson about this plate. And Benson says whe wanted to honor the memory of Viola Liuzzo who was killed in her oldsmobile--bearing a Water-Winter Wonderland license plate--by Klu Klux Klansmen after a march for voting rights in Selma, Alabama in 1965.

I had never heard of Viola Liuzzo and reading the article at Wikipedia really blew my mind. One aspect of the horrifying story is that one of the Klansmen involved in her murder was an FBI informant. In order to obscure that fact the FBI launched a smear campaign against Liuzzo telling the press and lawmakers falsehoods, among them that there were "puncture marks in her arm indicating recent use of a hypodermic needle; she was sitting very, very close to that negro in the car; that it has the appearance of a necking party."

The article about Viola Liuzzo is truly worth reading. In the comments to the Twitter thread people suggested that some will probably want to return their license plates when they find out it has anything to do with “wokeness.” No doubt that’s true. But perhaps many others will be inspired by Viola Liuzzo and be grateful there are righteous among us.

[keloggs8495]

In memory of our sister, Viola Liuzzo who gave her life in the struggle for the right to vote

March 25,1965.

Presented by SCLC Women & Evelyn Lowery

[gonzalo-obes]

IMAGENES Y DATOS INTERESANTES DEL 3 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024 Día para Dar, Día Internacional de las Personas con Discapacidad, Día Internacional del Médico, Día Internacional del Cine 3D, Día Mundial del no uso de Plaguicidas, Día Europeo del Síndrome de Marfan, Año Internacional de los Camélidos. Nuestra Señora del Sol, San Javier, San Francisco Javier, Santa Magina y Santa Atalia. Tal día como hoy en el año 2010 En España ocurre una huelga por sorpresa de controladores del tráfico aéreo, lo cual acaba paralizando el espacio aéreo nacional, causando malestar social y graves daños económicos. 1989 En el buque soviético Máximo Gorki, fondeado frente a las costas de Malta durante la Cumbre entre el presidente norteamericano George Bush (padre) y el líder soviético Mijail Gorbachov, se anuncia el fin de la Guerra Fría. La reunión, que tiene lugar 3 semanas y media después de la caída del muro de Berlín, sirve para comentar los vertiginosos cambios que se están viviendo en Europa y proponer estrategias de futuro. (Hace 35 años) 1984 Un escape de 45 toneladas de isocianato de metilo, un gas letal, de la fábrica de pesticidas de Union Carbide en Bhopal, India, se extiende sobre una zona poblada, lo que provoca entre 15.000 y 20.000 muertes directas y deja también alrededor de medio millón de afectados con dolencias médicas crónicas. En 2010 un tribunal indio condenará a 8 directivos a 2 años de prisión y una pequeña multa. (Hace 40 años) 1967 Con un gran interés internacional y por primera vez en la historia de la Medicina, el cirujano Christian Barnard, asistido por un equipo especializado compuesto por 20 personas, y tras más de ocho horas en el quirófano, transplanta el corazón a Louis Washkanzy de 50 años, por el de una joven de 25 muerta en accidente de tráfico. Dieciocho días después, Louis fallecerá de neumonía debido a la debilidad de su sistema inmunológico por los fármacos ingeridos para la operación. (Hace 57 años) 1965 Por primera vez en la historia de los tribunales de Estados Unidos, un jurado completamente blanco del sur del estado de Alabama, condena a tres miembros del Ku Klux Klan por el asesinato de la activista de derechos civiles blanca, Viola Liuzzo, madre de cinco niños de Detroit, que fue asesinada a tiros cuando circulaba en su coche con un joven activista negro, Leroy Moton, de regreso a la ciudad de Selma a raíz de una marcha de protesta a la capital del estado de Montgomery el 25 de marzo, cuando otro coche se colocó al lado del suyo y la dispararon dos veces en la cabeza muriendo instantáneamente. Su auto se salió de la carretera y se estrelló, pero Leroy Moton resultó ileso. Por todo ello, en el día de hoy, Colie Leroy Wilkins, de 22 años, Eugene Thomas, de 42, y William Eaton, de 41, son condenados por un tribunal federal por conspiración al violar los derechos constitucionales de la señora Liuzzo de 39 años, condenándoles al máximo de 10 años de prisión, al no poder sentenciarlos por cargo de asesinato ya que el homicidio no se encuentra dentro de la jurisdicción federal. (Hace 59 años) 1810 En el Oceáno Índico, y tras haber pertenecido a Francia desde 1718, es en el día de hoy cuando los ingleses invaden isla Mauricio. Tres días más tarde, el 6 de diciembre, las tropas francesas capitularán ante el vicealmirante Albemarle Bertie, significando la pérdida de la posesión a favor de los británicos. Mauricio se independizará del Reino Unido el 12 de marzo de 1968 convirtiéndose en una democracia estable que respetará los derechos humanos y atraerá por ello inversiones extranjeras, lo que le hará poseer una de las rentas per cápita más altas del continente africano. (Hace 214 años) http://obesia.com/index.php/miscelaneas

[gregorygalloway]

Inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr., Viola Liuzzo, a 39-year-old mother of 5 children, traveled from Detroit to Selma to participate in the civil rights marches.

Liuzzo had been active in the civil rights movement in Detroit since at least 1964, when she joined the NAACP and helped organize protests in Detroit.

After taking part in a protest at Wayne State on 16 March, Liuzzo arranged to have her children stay with a family friend and traveled to Selma, where she volunteered to use her car to transport other protesters back and forth from the airport, bus stations, and train stations.

After the conclusion of the 3rd march on 25 March 1965, Liuzzo was shuttling passengers from Montgomery to Selma with 19-year-old Leroy Morton. On their return trip to Montgomery a car with 4 members of the Ku Klux Klan pulled alongside Liuzzo and Morton and threatened them. When Liuzzo tried to outrun the car, the Klan chased after her, caught up to her and shot Liuzzo twice in the head. The car went off the road and crashed into a fence. Morton was covered in blood and unconscious, but the Klansmen thought he was dead, and left the scene.

The four Klan members in the car, William Eaton (41), Gary Rowe (34), Eugene Thomas (42), and Collie Wilkins (21) were quickly arrested. It was discovered that Rowe was an FBI informant who had participated in numerous acts of violence against civil rights activists. Rowe was given immunity, testified against the other 3 murderers, and placed in the Witness Protection Program.

A mistrial was declared in the first trial, the second ended in acquittal. The 3 were finally convicted in December in a federal trial, which had charged them with “conspiracy to intimidate“ under an 1871 law from Reconstruction. Eaton died of a heart attack on 9 March 1966. Thomas served 6 years in prison.

Martin Luther King, Jr. attended Liuzzo’s funeral and spoke of the “forces of evil alive in our nation that will use violence, terror, harassment — the darkest expressions of man’s inhumanity to man — to prevent progress. On the other hand, I think her death revealed there are persons of good will in our country — many white persons of good will — who are so committed to the cause of justice and human dignity that they are willing to pay the supreme price.”

[corsairpsc-blog]

An interview with Mary Liuzzo, daughter of civil right’s martyr, Viola Liuzzo. 

[ms-cellanies]

Katie Phang spoke with Viola Liuzzo’s son this morning.  The interview should be available online tomorrow.  Since it is Women’s History Month it is appropriate to learn more about this White woman left her home in Detroit & went to Selma, Alabama to help in the Civil Rights Movement.  More information here:  https://www.biography.com/activists/viola-gregg-liuzzo & here:   http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/hob.html.

[beardedmrbean]

March 25 (UPI) -- On this date in history:

In 1807, the English Parliament abolished the slave trade.

In 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City killed 146 people, mostly female immigrant workers. The tragedy led to the eventual enactment of many state and national workplace safety laws.

In 1947, a mine explosion in Centralia, Ill., killed 111 men, most of them asphyxiated by gas.

In 1954, the Radio Corporation of America began commercial production of color television sets.

In 1957, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands and West Germany signed a treaty in Rome establishing the European Economic Community, also known as the common market.

In 1965, white civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo of Detroit, 39, was killed on a road near Selma, Ala. Three Ku Klux Klansmen were convicted of violating Liuzzo's civil rights, but not for murder.

In 1975, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death at his palace in Riyadh by a "mentally deranged" nephew who was later executed.

In 1990, an arson fire swept an overcrowded social club, the Happy Land, in the Bronx borough of New York City, killing 87 people. Cuban refugee Julio Gonzalez, the arsonist -- whose former girlfriend worked at the club and survived the fire -- was convicted on multiple counts of arson and murder. He died in prison in September 2016.

In 1994, U.S. forces completed a withdrawal from Mogadishu, Somalia, except for a small number of soldiers left behind to provide support for U.N. peacekeepers.

In 2006, an estimated 500,000 people protested in Los Angeles against U.S. House-approved bill that would make it a felony to be in the United States illegally. The legislation, which also led to protests in other cities during this period, did not pass in the Senate.

In 2010, an explosion sank a South Korean warship on patrol in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 sailors. North Korea denied accusations it had torpedoed the ship.

[reading-writing-revolution]

Heather Cox Richardson:

March 7, 2021 (Sunday)

Black Americans outnumbered white Americans among the 29,500 people who lived in Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s, but the city’s voting rolls were 99% white. So, in 1963, Black organizers in the Dallas County Voters League launched a drive to get Black voters in Selma registered. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a prominent civil rights organization, joined them.

In 1964, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, but it did not adequately address the problem of voter suppression. In Selma, a judge had stopped the voter registration protests by issuing an injunction prohibiting public gatherings of more than two people.

To call attention to the crisis in her city, Amelia Boynton, who was a part of the Dallas County Voters League but who, in this case, was acting with a group of local activists, traveled to Birmingham to invite Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., to the city. King had become a household name after the 1963 March on Washington where he delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech, and his presence would bring national attention to Selma’s struggle.

King and other prominent members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference arrived in January to press the voter registration drive. For seven weeks, Black residents tried to register to vote. County Sheriff James Clark arrested almost 2000 of them for a variety of charges, including contempt of court and parading without a permit. A federal court ordered Clark not to interfere with orderly registration, so he forced Black applicants to stand in line for hours before taking a “literacy” test. Not a single person passed.

Then, on February 18, white police officers, including local police, sheriff’s deputies, and Alabama state troopers, beat and shot an unarmed 26-year-old, Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was marching for voting rights at a demonstration in his hometown of Marion, Alabama, about 25 miles northwest of Selma. Jackson had run into a restaurant for shelter along with his mother when the police started rioting, but they chased him and shot him in the restaurant’s kitchen.

Jackson died eight days later, on February 26. The leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Selma decided to defuse the community’s anger by planning a long march—54 miles-- from Selma to the state capitol at Montgomery to draw attention to the murder and voter suppression. Expecting violence, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee voted not to participate, but its chair, John Lewis, asked their permission to go along on his own. They agreed.

On March 7, 1965, the marchers set out. As they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, named for a Confederate brigadier general, Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan, and U.S. senator who stood against Black rights, state troopers and other law enforcement officers met the unarmed marchers with billy clubs, bull whips, and tear gas. They fractured John Lewis’s skull, and beat Amelia Boynton unconscious. A newspaper photograph of the 54-year-old Boynton, seemingly dead in the arms of another marcher, illustrated the depravity of those determined to stop Black voting.

Images of “Bloody Sunday” on the national news mesmerized the nation, and supporters began to converge on Selma. King, who had been in Atlanta when the marchers first set off, returned to the fray.

Two days later, the marchers set out again. Once again, the troopers and police met them at the end of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, but this time, King led the marchers in prayer and then took them back to Selma. That night, a white mob beat to death a Unitarian Universalist minister, James Reeb, who had come from Massachusetts to join the marchers.

On March 15, President Lyndon B. Johnson addressed a nationally televised joint session of Congress to ask for the passage of a national voting rights act. “Their cause must be our cause too,” he said. “[A]ll of us… must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.” Two days later, he submitted to Congress proposed voting rights legislation.

The marchers remained determined to complete their trip to Montgomery, and when Alabama’s governor, George Wallace, refused to protect them, President Johnson stepped in. When the marchers set off for a third time on March 21, 1,900 members of the nationalized Alabama National Guard, FBI agents, and federal marshals protected them. Covering about ten miles a day, they camped in the yards of well-wishers until they arrived at the Alabama State Capitol on March 25. Their ranks had grown as they walked until they numbered about 25,000 people.

On the steps of the capitol, speaking under a Confederate flag, Dr. King said: “The end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. And that will be a day not of the white man, not of the black man. That will be the day of man as man.”

That night, Viola Liuzzo, a 39-year-old mother of five who had arrived from Michigan to help after Bloody Sunday, was murdered by four Ku Klux Klan members tailing her as she ferried demonstrators out of the city.

On August 6, Dr. King and Mrs. Boynton were guests of honor as President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Johnson recalled “the outrage of Selma” when he said "This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies."

The Voting Rights Act authorized federal supervision of voter registration in districts where African Americans were historically underrepresented. Johnson promised that the government would strike down “regulations, or laws, or tests to deny the right to vote.” He called the right to vote “the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men,” and pledged that “we will not delay, or we will not hesitate, or we will not turn aside until Americans of every race and color and origin in this country have the same right as all others to share in the process of democracy.”

But less than 50 years later, in 2013, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. The Shelby County v. Holder decision opened the door, once again, for voter suppression. Since then, states have made it harder to vote. And now, in the wake of the 2020 election, in which voters handed control of the government to Democrats, legislatures in 43 states are considering sweeping legislation to restrict voting, especially voting by people of color. Among the things Georgia wants to outlaw is giving water to voters as they wait for hours in line to get to the polls.

Today, 56 years after Bloody Sunday, President Biden signed an executive order “to promote voting access and allow all eligible Americans to participate in our democracy.” He called on Congress to pass the For the People Act, making it easier to vote, and to restore the Voting Rights Act, now named the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act after the man who went on from his days in the Civil Rights Movement to serve 17 terms as a representative from Georgia, bearing the scars of March 7, 1965, until he died on July 17, 2020.

The fact sheet from the White House announcing the executive order explained: “democracy doesn’t happen by accident. We have to defend, strengthen, and renew it.” Or, as Representative Lewis put it: “Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”

[lucasartres]

Paul Rucker. FOREVER: Viola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo. March 25, 1965. Montgomery, Alabama.