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, 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 ...

Editor's Note: This coverage was made possible by donations to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's Community Journalism Project. NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -- Of the honors that Elizabeth Eckford and the other ...

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, ...

When Mothershed Wair was a teenager, she and 8 other Black students initiated the integration of Central High School in Little Rock. Thelma Mothershed Wair, a member of the Little Rock Nine, has died ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — It was 68 years ago today that Little Rock Central made national headlines when 10 Black students arrived to enter the school — that day would become a historic moment, signaling ...

They are turning it into propaganda tools, weaponizing that history to turn Americans against each other and against the war.

In 1957, nine Black students entered Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, an all-white school. A monument was installed on Capitol grounds in Little Rock in 2025. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders ...

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.

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