Little Rock 9 member Thelma Mothershed Wair dies
YAHOO!News · 6h
Thelma Mothershed-Wair, one of the Little Rock Nine, passes away
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 national hero as one of nine African American students involved in the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette · 9h
Little Rock Nine member Thelma Mothershed Wair dies
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)
KARK · 15m
The capital city mourns the loss of Little Rock Nine member Thelma Mothershed-Wair
LITTLE ROCK, Ark- The loss of Little Rock Nine member Thelma Mothershed-Wair is a major one in the capital city. She was 83 years old, and people in the community remember vividly the start of the Little Rock Nine’s journey to de-segregating Central High School.
92.7 WMAY · 3h
AP: Thelma Mothershed Wair, a member of the Little Rock Nine who integrated an Arkansas school, has died
SummaryOne of the nine Black students who integrated a high school in Arkansas' capital city in 1957 while a mob of white segregationists yelled threats and insults at them has died at age 83. Thelma
Deltaplex News · 4h
Thelma Mothershed Wair of the Little Rock Nine Dies at Age 83
Thelma Mothershed Wair, one of the nine Black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, has passed away at the age of 83. She died in Little Rock due to complications from multiple sclerosis,
Houston Chronicle · 5h
Little Rock Nine member Thelma Mothershed Wair helped integrate Arkansas school. She has died at 83
Mothershed Wair died Saturday at a hospital in Little Rock after having complications from multiple sclerosis, her sister, Grace Davis, confirmed Sunday to The. The students who integrated Central High School were known as the Little Rock Nine.
Voice of America · 3h
Thelma Mothershed Wair, member of Little Rock Nine who integrated Arkansas school, has died
For three weeks in September 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus used the National Guard to block the Black students from enrolling in Central High, three years after the U.S. Supreme Court declared segr
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