On this day in 1957, nine black students entered Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, an all-white school. Watch the video above to see the full story.The students, known as the Little Rock ...
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 ...
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 ...
In September 1957, nine Black Arkansas teenagers entered the all-White Little Rock Central High School in an episode that became iconic in the civil rights movement. The teens were part of school ...
Thelma Mothershed Wair, a member of the Little Rock Nine who integrated an Arkansas school, has died
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, ...
A free multimedia concert with the theme of racial amity is the main event for this month's 66th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine's dauntless desegregation of Little Rock Central High School.
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 ...
Thelma Watershed Wair, one of the historical Little Rock Nine who integrated an Arkansas high school in 1957 amidst an angry mob of White separationists and who later graduated from Southern Illinois ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas Travelers players visited Little Rock Central High School this week to reflect on Juneteenth and learn more about the legacy of the Little Rock Nine. Juneteenth, ...
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