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Home of the Brave

Subjects: Biographies, Civil Rights, Family Studies, History, Law, Women's Studies

Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: Bullfrog Films
Closed Captioned: No

Running Time: 75 mins
Country of Origin: United States
Study Guide: No

Copyright Date: 2003
Available in French: No

Home of the Brave is about the only white woman murdered in the civil rights movement and why we hear so little about her. Told through the eyes of her children, the film follows the on-going struggle of an American family to survive the consequences of their mother's heroism and the mystery behind her killing. Viola Liuzzo was a 39-year-old Detroit teamster's wife and mother of five, who joined thousands of people converging in Selma, Alabama for the march on Montgomery, led by Martin Luther King in 1965. But shortly after the historic Voting Rights March had ended, she was shot in the head and killed by a car full of Klansmen, while driving on a deserted highway. Liuzzo's death came at a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement, when President Johnson had been fighting an uphill battle to push the Voting Rights Act through Congress. Her murder is attributed by historians of the era as providing the final piece of leverage that won Johnson approval of the Act in Congress, which forever changed our political landscape. Home of the Brave links the personal and the political, the past and present and has a disturbing resonance to our world today.

Awards: Short-Listed for Best Documentary Feature, Academy Awards;Nominated for Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival;Nominated for Best Feature Documentary, IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards;Social Justice Award, Santa Barbara International Film Festival;Best Documentary, Port Townsend International Film Festival;Runner-Up, Audience Choice Award, Cleveland International Film Festival;San Francisco International Film Festival;Full Frame Documentary Film FestivalPhiladelphia Film Festival;Ashland Independent Film Festival

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