Martha Louise Morrow Foxx

Foxx's classroom was as much outdoors as in. Partially blind from infancy, she arrived at Piney Woods in 1929 and taught Braille, music, and mat and cane-seat making. She led students into the woods for plums and wild berries and insisted blind children join the same outings as sighted ones. At Laurence Jones's request she organized the Cotton Blossom Singers, a blind quartet that recorded for Alan Lomax in 1937. Helen Keller visited in 1945 to press legislators for funds, and in 1950 a new state school for Black blind students opened in Jackson, where Foxx served as principal.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old Capitol Museum — 20 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 20 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.
• Farish Street Historic District — 20 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 23 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.

More markers nearby

• The Piney Woods School — steps away
• Piney Woods — steps away
• Wesleyanna Methodist Church — 4.0 mi
• Seminary Square — 14 mi