Mary is a leader in Civil and Human Rights education and awareness and annually joins in the commemorations of Bloody Sunday in Selma. Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe has interviewed those who were with their mother in her final days in order to continue Viola’s legacy and to feel closer to her.
lives in Birmingham, closer to his mother’s memorial marker in Selma, and has studied race relations, community outreach, and public speaking. Since her death, Viola’s children have taken up their mother’s cause – civil rights – and continued her unfinished work.
While shuttling demonstrators between Selma and Montgomery, Liuzzo was shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call for help, Liuzzo left her home and family in Detroit and headed to Alabama to assist the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with its efforts to register African American voters. Liuzzo was deeply affected by the events of Bloody Sunday (March 1965) where peaceful protestors in Selma were savagely beaten by Alabama state troopers. Gatson Bates Drive.Ī powerful and thought-provoking story, “Home of the Brave” examines the life of Viola Liuzzo, the only white woman to be killed during the Civil Rights Movement. in the Little Rock Central High School NHS visitor center at 2120 W. The documentary screening will be shown at 5:30 p.m. Home of the Brave is an unstinting look at the human cost of fomenting social change in the Land of the Free.Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site announces a free screening of the documentary “Home of the Brave” on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. government.Ĭombining archival footage with verite material and present day interviews, di Florio assesses the cost of Liuzzo's passion for justice, her contribution to the advancement of civil rights, and the family's bitterness resulting largely from futile attempts to seek justice. The murder trial and acquittal of the three arrested Klan members, a smear campaign mounted by the FBI against Liuzzo, and the subsequent revelations of the FBI agent present during the killing all coalesce to deepen the family members' personal despair and their disillusionment and contempt for the U.S. Liuzzo, a white woman campaigning for black voting rights, was murdered near Selma, Alabama, in 1965 by the Ku Klux Klan. But it is also an investigation into the devastating effect of her death had on her family. On one level, this film is an examination of the death of Viola Liuzzo, a Detroit teamster's wife, mother of five, and activist during the height of the civil rights crusade of the 1960's. The price of social commitment, not just to oneself but to the generations that follow, is compassionately explored in Paola di Florio's Home of the Brave.
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