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Martha Louise Morrow Foxx (1902 – 1975) Educated blind children in Mississippi
Martha Louise Morrow Foxx was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on October 9, 1902. An eye disease left her partially blind, and she entered the School for the Blind at Charlotte before moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she enrolled in the Overbrook Institute while taking courses at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.
The Mississippi Blind School for Negroes was opened at The Piney Woods School campus in 1929, when Mrs. Foxx came to teach and later became principal. In 1945, Helen Keller visited The Piney Woods School and appeared before the state legislature to appeal for funding for African-American blind students. In 1950 a school for the blind was completed and moved to its new location on Capers Street in Jackson, where Mrs. Foxx was the principal.
Dr. Laurence C. Jones, who founded The Piney Woods School in 1909, said of Mrs. Foxx, “She ministered, not only to their intellectual needs, but to their moral and spiritual needs as well.” Dr. Jones described her relationship to her charges as like that of a mother. She taught them such skills as mat-making, cane seating, knitting, sewing, and music. She formed quartets that traveled to sing in churches and schools. “She developed in all her students’ self-reliance so that they could eagerly look forward to the time when they could support themselves out in the world,” Dr. Jones said.
Mrs. Foxx’s teaching philosophy embraced a very modern dynamic of learning outside the walls of the classroom and of incorporating nature into lessons. She often took the children into the surrounding woods to hunt for plums and to pick wild berries. Ernestine Archie, first graduate of the school, recalled Mrs. Foxx’s determination that the visually handicapped students be allowed to enjoy outings just as the sighted students did and that their senses of touch, taste, sound and smell made up for the deficiency in sight. Ms. Archie recalled how the dynamic teacher also claimed that these forays into nature sharpened the blind students’ “sixth sense,” honing their spirits as well as their minds. Utilizing what at the time were progressive techniques, Mrs. Foxx taught her students to read Braille and special large-print books.
Mrs. Foxx retired from her job as principal in 1969. She passed in 1975. Her hobbies were listening to recorded books and traveling. Her main enjoyment, though, always came from her work. “I’ve enjoyed everything connected with teaching,” she once said. “It has been my whole life.”
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