Born in North Carolina, Martha Louise Morrow Foxx (1902-1985) was educated at the North Carolina School for the Blind and the Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia. After the Mississippi State Commission for the Blind was created in 1928, she was chosen as the first teacher for the Colored School for the Blind, once located on the Piney Woods Country Life School campus. She served as the school's sole teacher from May 6, 1929 until 1942 and retired in 1969.