Another member of Little Rock Nine is gone, as the eldest of the group, Thelma Mothershed-Wair, died this weekend at the age ...
Wair, the oldest member of the Little Rock Nine Students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, passed ...
Mothershed Wair would eventually earn her high school diploma at Central High School, before going on to earn both her ...
In 1957, Mrs. Mothershed Wair and eight other Black students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School. They faced racist ...
Thelma Mothershed Wair, a member of the famous Little Rock Nine group, passed away on Saturday at the age of 83.
"I didn't think anybody was really going to hurt her because, you know, we've had racial incidents in Little Rock over the ...
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 ...
Thelma Mothershed Wair gained nationwide fame as a child, when she became a Little Rock Nine member and helped desegregate Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
Officials with the North Little Rock Police Department said they have made an arrest tied to an August shooting investigation ...