Little Rock Nine member Thelma Mothershed Wair dies at 83
FILE - Thelma Mothershed Wair seated on the bench that bears her name at Little Rock Central High School's 49th anniversary celebration of its integration on Sept. 25, 2006 as they dedicated memorial benches around the reflecting pool that carry the names of the nine black students. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/STEVE KEESEE)
She and eight other students integrated Central High School in Little Rock in 1957 while a mob of White segregationists ...
Mothershed-Wair became a national hero as one of the nine African American students involved in the desegregation of Little ...
A member of the Little Rock Nine has died. Thelma Mothershed Wair died Saturday at Baptist Medical Center in Little Rock, ...
Thelma Mothershed Wair, one of nine Black students who became known as the Little Rock Nine for integrating a high school in 1957 during one of the biggest confrontations of the civil ...
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