The Easton Area School District will honor more than 40 minority students this year at its Little Rock Nine awards, according to a news release. The awards are given annually in honor of nine ...

After a couple more failed attempts in September, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school for their first full day of classes on Sept. 25.

Thelma Mothershed-Wair, who has died aged 83, was one of the nine black students who in 1957 had to be escorted by the 101st Airborne Division through jeering mobs at Little Rock Central High ...

little rock, ark. — 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.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Events throughout the weekend will be held to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine. On Friday morning, five of the former students continued to reflect on ...

One of the nine Black students who integrated a high school in Arkansas’ capital city in 1957 while a mob of white segregationists yelled threats and insults at them has died at age 83.

In 2018, then-Navy Secretary Ray Mabus named the six women of the Little Rock Nine as sponsors of the ship. Besides LaNier, Elizabeth Eckford and Gloria Ray Karlmark also attended the ceremony.

Getty Images - STOCK (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 ...

One of the nine Black students who integrated a high school in Arkansas’ capital city in 1957 while a mob of white segregationists yelled threats and insults at them has died at age 83.

This transference dropped the group from 10 students to 9, forming the Little Rock Nine, who would later gain entry into the school on Sept. 25, 1957 after President Eisenhower ordered a federal ...

FILE - Thelma Mothershed, one of the Little Rock Nine who in 1957 integrated Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., is shown on Dec. 6, 1957. (AP Photo, File) ...

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 ...