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 ...

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — In 1954, the Supreme Court made a landmark decision, ruling that segregation was illegal after hearing arguments in the Brown v. Board of Education case. This marked the formal end ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Thelma Mothershed-Wair, a civil rights pioneer, was laid to rest this weekend. KATV was invited to attend the wake and ceremony of Mothershed-Wair, who died at the age of 83.

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. — Among the most lasting and indelible images of the civil rights movement were the nine black teenagers who had to be escorted by federal troops past an angry white mob and through ...

ROCK ISLAND, Illinois — Martin Luther King Jr. Day takes place every year in January and honors the critical work of the civil rights activist and leader. In commemoration, the MLK Center hosted a ...

(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) — 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 ...

In 1954, the Supreme Court’s seminal Brown V. Board of Education decision declared that racial segregation in the country’s public schools was unconstitutional. But despite that monumental ruling, ...