March 18, 1999

Elizabeth Paisley Huckaby died. Huckaby 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 desegregation of the school. Huckaby is also the author of Crisis at Central High: Little Rock, 1957–58. At the time of her retirement in 1969, the Arkansas Gazette said she was “probably as much as any member of the school staff…the object of vilification by the segregationist forces in the 1957 and later school desegregation crises, and conversely a champion of the forces of law and order.”