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. – 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 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 ...

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." ...

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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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, ...