April 14, 1905

Elizabeth Paisley Huckaby, who served as an instructor of English for thirty-nine years and was vice principal for girls at Central High School in Little Rock (Pulaski County) during the 1957 desegregation of the school, was born in Hamburg (Ashley County). Charged with protecting the five female members of the Little Rock Nine, she became the target of hostility and anger from segregationists within the school and in the community.