Claim: Martha Louise Morrow Foxx, who became partially blind in infancy and entered the Governor Morehead School for the Blind as a young child,  became instrumental in founding the Mississippi Blind School for Negroes on the Piney Woods School campus in April 1929.
Evidence: Foxx became partially blind in infancy, from an eye disease. She entered the Governor Morehead School for the Blind as a young child, until her family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when Foxx was eleven. Foxx was instrumental in founding the Mississippi Blind School for Negroes on the Piney Woods School campus in April 1929.