HII launched the Virginia-class submarine Arkansas into the James River for completion and testing. NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The ...

Jaron Chambers is thrilled to see his three young daughters learn about the civil rights movement — including Dr. Martin ...

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 ...

McCartney also spoke about the inspiration for the song from the Little Rock Nine in Arkansas, Black students who integrated into an all-white high school in 1957 after the ruling of Brown vs. Board ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The nine black teenagers who integrated Little Rock's Central High School in September 1957 all went on to seek higher education. Eight remain alive.

The Travelers will honor all nine of the brave students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, Melba Pattillo-Beals, Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Terrence ...

No cause was given. In the fall of 1957, nine Black students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School, the country’s first test for school integration after the 1954 Supreme Court Brown v.

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. Credit: AP/Anonymous ...

Little Rock Nine member Thelma Mothershed Wair died at 83. She faced threats but became a teacher and counselor. Wair was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal, later donated to the Clinton Library.

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 ...

Thelma Mothershed Wair, one of the nine Black students who integrated a high school in Little Rock in 1957 while a mob of White segregationists yelled threats and insults, died Oct. 19 at a ...