Key Highlights
- Viola Liuzzo drove 800 miles from Detroit to Selma, Alabama.
- Her journey occurred after the Bloody Sunday protests on March 7, 1965.
- Liuzzo was inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s appeal for support.
- She was active in the Detroit N. A. A. C. P. and married to a Teamsters official.
- Liuzzo's involvement highlighted the role of white allies in the civil rights movement.
