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, ...

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. (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 ...

Seventy years after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision ended racial segregation in public schools, members of the "Little Rock Nine" -- the first group of African American ...

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 ...

The cover of Life magazine on Oct. 7, 1957, showed paratroopers with rifles and bayonets standing in front of Little Rock Central High School. The headline read, "U.S. Troops Take Over in Arkansas." ...

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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, ...

Read full article: Metro Detroit Catholics react to Archdiocese’s restructuring plans Monday's highs will only reach the lower- to mid-40s in Southeast Michigan. (WDIV) Thelma Mothershed Wair, one of ...