Community, Culture, and Education Dr. LeRoy Christophe sought to expand the educational opportunities for African-American students in Arkansas and beyond. He understood that education needed to be engaging and purposeful in order to keep his students involved. Christophe knew that…
For Dr. LeRoy Christophe, mastery came from active community involvement. His own community involvement helped him to enhance his skills in public speaking, finance, education, and leadership. Throughout his adult life, he remained committed to teaching these valuable life skills…
Community Involvement LeRoy Christophe believed that substance was primary over form. He believed that dedication to hard work and delivering positive results was the substance on which success is built. Because he believed in delivering results through hard work, Dr.…
Dr. LeRoy Christophe worked as an educator in Arkansas for 29 years, from 1930 to 1959. After serving as a teacher in Dunbar and the principal of two Little Rock elementary schools, Charlotte E. Stephens Elementary and John E. Bush Elementary, Dr. Christophe became principal of Dunbar High School in 1945.
In 1980, Huckaby published Crisis at Central High, which recorded her memories of the integration crisis and the years following. The book detailed her role in assisting the students during the time of integration. Huckaby said she waited until after…
In the year following the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, all high schools in the Little Rock School District were closed to avoid integration. The teachers were still employed and often used as substitutes for lower grade levels,…
During the crisis, Huckaby’s role shifted away from education as she was given the task of screening mail from the public, filtering public response from segregationist parent groups, and confiscating the anti-integration propaganda distributed by students. As vice principal and…
Elizabeth Huckaby began the 1957 school year expecting to continue teaching students and to keeping order at Central High. As vice principal of girls, before the crisis she taught English and was responsible for the discipline of female students and…
Elizabeth Paisley Huckaby (1905-1999) served as vice principal of girls at Little Rock Central High School during the Little Rock crisis of 1957. As a dedicated teacher, Huckaby spent the year of the crisis working in support of desegregation, protecting the Little Rock Nine, maintaining order at Central High, and promoting the education of students.
