Friends and family of Thelma Mothershed Wair said their final goodbyes Saturday to the Little Rock Nine member at a memorial ...

Wair, who has died aged 83, was one of the nine black students who in 1957 had to be escorted by the 101st Airborne Division ...

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has ordered flags in Arkansas to be flown at half-staff Saturday in honor of Little Rock Nine ...

In 1957, she and eight other Black students — the Little Rock Nine — enrolled in a high school in the face of racist mobs and ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Thelma Mothershed-Wair, the eldest member of the Little Rock Nine passed away on Saturday.

Thelma Mothershed Wair, one of the nine Black students who integrated a high school in Arkansas’ capital city of Little Rock ...

FILE - Thelma Mothershed Wair seated on the bench that bears her name at Little Rock Central High School's 49th anniversary ...

Many are mourning the loss of an Arkansan who inspired change for the better and changed African-American education across ...

Wair, along with eight other courageous young African American students integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Born in 1940 in Bloomburg, Texas, Dr. Thelma Mothershed-Wair, along with eight other courageous young ...

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