Mothershed-Wair became a national hero as one of the nine African American students involved in the desegregation of Little ...

In 1957, Mrs. Mothershed Wair and eight other Black students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School. They faced racist ...

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 ...

Thelma Mothershed Wair, a member of the group of nine teenagers who made history in 1957 when they became the first Black students to attend a previously segregated high school in Little Rock, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Because we are a high-tax city already, because we are not addressing our main issues, and because we are not wisely spending ...

Thelma Mothershed Wair, a member of the Little Rock Nine that integrated an Arkansas high school, has died at age 83.

Memorials have continued to pour in remembering Little Rock Nine member, Thelma Mothershed Wair, who tragically passed away ...