Movie Review | ‘Home of the Brave’: A Slain Civil Rights Worker and Her Mournful Legacy
The New York Times
October 27, 2004
By ANITA GATES
Growing up white in Alabama, I never learned the names Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman. In my home, those young men, murdered in Mississippi in 1964, were referred to simply as “the three civil rights workers.” The better to depersonalize them, I guess.
But the name Viola Liuzzo stuck with me. She was the Northern white woman who was shot to death the next year in Lowndes County, closer to home, while driving a car with a young black man beside her. Liuzzo, I was taught, was a malignant busybody and a tramp. Little did I know that J. Edgar Hoover was promoting the same view.