Thelma Mothershed Wair, a member of the famous Little Rock Nine group, passed away on Saturday at the age of 83.
Thelma Watershed Wair, one of the historical Little Rock Nine who integrated an Arkansas high school in 1957 amidst an angry mob of white separationist and who later graduated from Southern Illinois ...
Melba Pattillo Beals, Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Terrence Roberts, and Jefferson Thomas—made history when they defied an angry mob ...
Mothershed Wair died Saturday at a hospital in Little Rock after having complications from multiple sclerosis, her sister, ...
Many are mourning the loss of an Arkansan who inspired change for the better and changed African-American education across ...
In 1957, Mrs. Mothershed Wair and eight other Black students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School. They faced racist ...
Officials with the North Little Rock Police Department said they have made an arrest tied to an August shooting investigation ...
Another member of Little Rock Nine is gone, as the eldest of the group, Thelma Mothershed-Wair, died this weekend at the age ...
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, ...
Thelma Watershed Wair, one of the Little Rock Nine, has died at 83. She was a history-making student who integrated Little ...
Thelma Mothershed Wair, a member of the Little Rock Nine that integrated an Arkansas high school, has died at age 83.