In 1957, the nine students: Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, ... "We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Little Rock Nine member Mrs. Thelma Mothershed-Wair.

On Sept. 25, 1957, nine black students had to be escorted by federal troops through an angry mob of white people as they walked toward the doors of a previously all-white high school in Little ...

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 ...

Who were the Little Rock Nine? For three weeks in September 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus used the National Guard to block the Black students from enrolling in Central High, three years after ...

According to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, on September 25, 1957, following a request from the city’s mayor, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to escort ...

Melba Pattillo 15, left, and Thelma Mothershed, 15, both 11th grade students pose in their home after arriving from Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, Sept. 23, 1957.

In 1957, the nine students: Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, ... "We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Little Rock Nine member Mrs. Thelma Mothershed-Wair.

Thelma Mothershed Wair, a member of the historic Little Rock Nine who helped integrate Central High School in 1957, has died at age 83.

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 ...

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.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — People all across the state of Arkansas are mourning the loss of one of their own. According to reports, Thelma Mothershed, one of the members of the Little Rock Nine, passed ...

Thelma Mothershed Wair, who was 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 ...