Editing Viola Liuzzo (section)

==Early life and education==
Viola Fauver Gregg was born on April 11, 1925, in the small town of [[California, Pennsylvania]], the elder daughter of Eva Wilson, a teacher, and Heber Ernest Gregg, a coal miner and World War I veteran. Her father had taught himself to read as a child and left school in the eighth grade. Her mother had a teaching certificate from [[Pennsylvania Western University, California|Southwestern Pennsylvania Normal School]] (later California University of Pennsylvania and currently Pennsylvania Western University, California). The couple had a second daughter, Rose Mary, in 1930. 

Heber lost his right hand in a mine explosion when they were living in Georgia. It was during the [[Great Depression]], and the Greggs became solely dependent on Eva's income. She had difficulty finding anything other than short-term teaching positions. Struggling with poverty, when Viola was six the family decided to move from Georgia to [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]], where Eva found a teaching position.<ref name="serialssolutions2004">Stanton, Mary (2004). "Viola Liuzzo and the Gendered Politics of Martyrdom: From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo". ''[[Harvard Women's Law Journal]]''.</ref>

The family was very poor and lived in one-room shacks with no running water. The schools Liuzzo attended did not have adequate supplies, and teachers had little time to deal with the many children in need. Because the family moved so often, Liuzzo usually began and ended the year in different schools. Having been poor in Tennessee for much of her childhood and adolescence, she was close to the racially segregated nature of the South. This would have a powerful influence on her activism.{{Cn|date=July 2024}}