Carolyn Elaine Beard Humphries
- First black student to receive a high school diploma from Loyd Star before or after integration
- First black female to integrate the YWCA located on State Street in Jackson, MS
- First Loyd Star Community Columnist
- Committee member, helping to organize the first Progress school reunion, first Eva Hall Harris reunion, and first Lincoln county schools reunion
- Degree in Education, working at Progress Headstart Center, Loyd Star School, Martin Elementary School, and Brookhaven Elementary School
- Member of Damascus M.B. Church
- Married to Kirby L. Humphries, proud mother and grandmother.
