Thelma Mothershed Wair, one of the nine Black students who integrated a high school in Arkansas’ capital city of Little Rock in 1957 while a mob of white segregationists yelled threats and insults, ...

On this day in 1957, nine black students entered Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, an all-white school. Watch the video above to see the full story.The students, known as the Little Rock ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Thelma Mothershed-Wair, who contributed to desegregation in the Little Rock public school system, was celebrated and laid to rest on Saturday. Mothershed-Wair’s funeral service was ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Thelma Mothershed-Wair, the eldest member of the Little Rock Nine passed away on Saturday. Mothershed-Wair was born on November 29, 1940, in Bloomberg, Texas and became a national ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — One of the nine black students who famously integrated Central High School in Little Rock in 1957 says the images of a white supremacist rally in Virginia last month ...

Little Rock Nine student Elizabeth Eckford is being harassed in this famous Will Counts photo. The main heroes portrayed in words and photos are the Little Rock Nine -- the Black students who ...

Sept. 3 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock. After ...

A free multimedia concert with the theme of racial amity is the main event for this month's 66th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine's dauntless desegregation of Little Rock Central High School.

FILE - Thelma Mothershed Wair, right, speaks at a news conference in Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 23, 2007, as Carlotta Walls LaNier, from left, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, and Minnijean Brown ...

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