Arkansas
Thelma Mothershed Wair, a member of the Little Rock Nine who integrated an Arkansas school, has died
One 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.
FILE - Thelma Mothershed Wair, right, speaks at a news conference in Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 23, 2007, as Carlotta Walls LaNier, from left, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, and Minnijean Brown Trickey, members of the Little Rock Nine who in 1957 ... [3549 chars]