According to reports, Thelma Mothershed, one of the members of the Little Rock Nine, passed away over the weekend. In 1957, the nine students: Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas ...

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(Little Rock, KATV) — Another member of Little Rock Nine is gone, as the eldest of the group, Thelma Mothershed-Wair, died this weekend at the age of 83. Little Rock Nine member and civil rights ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Legendary Arkansas activist and member of the Little Rock Nine, Thelma Mothershed-Wair, has died at the age of 83. Thelma Mothershed-Wair and the rest of the Little Rock ...

Little Rock Nine member Thelma Mothershed Wair died at 83. She faced threats but became a teacher and counselor. Wair was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal, later donated to the Clinton Library.

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Thelma Mothershed-Wair, the eldest member of the Little Rock Nine passed away on Saturday. Mothershed-Wair was born on November 29, 1940, in Bloomberg, Texas and became a ...

In 1957, she and eight other Black students — the Little Rock Nine — enrolled in a high school in the face of racist mobs and a resistant Jim Crow governor. By Alexandra E. Petri Thelma ...

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 (of Little Rock Nine) attends the taping of Courting Justice: Little Rock Arkansas at Central Arkansas Library Ron Robinson Theatre on September 23, 2016 in Little Rock ...