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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

A member of the Little Rock Nine died over the weekend. Grace Davis tells 40/29 News that her sister, Thelma Mothershed Wair, died Saturday at the age of 83. Wair was one of nine African-American ...

Editor's Note: This coverage was made possible by donations to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's Community Journalism Project. NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — With a solid swing from living history, the latest ...

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Thelma Mothershed Wair, one of nine Black students who became known as the Little Rock Nine for integrating a high school in 1957 in an explosive confrontation during the civil rights struggle, died ...