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 ...

Left: This combination of file photos shows the nine black teenagers who had to be escorted by federal troops past an angry white mob and through the doors of Central High 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 ...

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. While they're most ...

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 ...

Recommended Videos The students who integrated Central High School were known as the Little Rock Nine. For three weeks in September 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus used the National Guard to ...

Jefferson Thomas and Carlotta Walls — integrated Central High School in Little Rock in September 1957. Despite Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus deploying the National Guard to block their enrollment ...