In 1957, Terrence Roberts was one of nine Black students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School. Sixty-nine years later, Roberts thinks "we have not reached that point where everybody in this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Funeral service held for Little Rock Nine member Thelma Mothershed-Wair LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Thelma Mothershed-Wair, the eldest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nine years ago, students walked up the steps of Central High School facing angry crowds and national attention. All for the right ...

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, ...

A member of the Little Rock Nine has died. Thelma Mothershed Wair died Saturday at Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock, said her sister, Grace Davis. Mothershed Wair, 83, suffered from multiple ...

Led by Arkansas NAACP president Daisy Gaston Bates, nine Black students took on the task of testing the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 landmark ruling of Brown v. Board of Education, which declared that ...

Sept. 3 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock. After ...

In 1957, the Little Rock Nine faced violent resistance while integrating Central High School. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent the 101st Airborne to protect the students and ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The nuclear submarine USS Arkansas was christened Saturday, almost a decade in the making since the U.S. Navy announced that a Virginia-class submarine would bear the state’s ...

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 hospital ...