She and eight other students integrated Central High School in Little Rock in 1957 while a mob of White segregationists ...

Another member of Little Rock Nine is gone, as the eldest of the group, Thelma Mothershed-Wair, died this weekend at the age ...

According to reports, Thelma Mothershed, one of the members of the Little Rock Nine, passed away over the weekend. In 1957, the nine students: Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas ...

Wair, one of the students who became known as the Little Rock Nine while integrating Central High School in 1957, died at ...

Bates would eventually serve as leader of the Arkansas Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored ...

Little Rock Nine member Thelma Mothershed Wair died at 83. She faced threats but became a teacher and counselor. Wair was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal, later donated to the Clinton Library.

Wair, who has died aged 83, was one of the nine black students who in 1957 had to be escorted by the 101st Airborne Division ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Legendary Arkansas activist and member of the Little Rock Nine, Thelma Mothershed-Wair, has died at the age of 83. Thelma Mothershed-Wair and the rest of the Little Rock ...

On Monday, central Arkansas celebrated the birthday of civil rights icon Daisy Bates, who would be 110 years old.

(Little Rock, KATV) — Another member of Little Rock Nine is gone, as the eldest of the group, Thelma Mothershed-Wair, died this weekend at the age of 83. Little Rock Nine member and civil rights ...