Elizabeth Jacoway

Elizabeth Jacoway is a historian, educator, and writer from Little Rock, Arkansas. She studied history at the University of North Carolina, where she earned a Ph.D. She spent thirty years investigating the Little Rock crisis, interviewing every available participant, including members of her own family, while teaching at the University of Florida, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Lyon College. Married and the mother of two grown sons, she lives in Newport, Arkansas.