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, ...

In 1957, Brown Trickey was one of nine African American students who courageously desegregated Little Rock Central High School under federal protection, becoming a pivotal figure in the American civil ...

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 ...

It’s quite a story, of course. LaNier, along with Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Terrence Roberts, Melba Pattillo, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas and Thelma Mothershed, are members of ...

LaNier dedicated this book to her two grandchildren, and said she wanted children to understand the history of the Little ...

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 ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Carlotta Walls LaNier about her new children's picture book, "Carlotta's Special Dress," recounting her story as the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine.

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 ...

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, ...