Little Rock School Board members took action Thursday during a special meeting to determine that the district's new school board zone map will consist of seven geographical areas, each represented by ...

Little Rock voters will elect representatives to a downsized school board in March 2026, with seven members instead of the ...

The Little Rock crisis of September 1957 pitted nine black schoolchildren against the brute force of southern racism, in one of the most climactic struggles of the civil rights era. It came to ...

25, 1957, nine black students had to be escorted by federal troops through an angry mob of white people as they walked toward the doors of a previously all-white high school in Little Rock ...

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 insults ...

Under the glare of an angry mob of white students, 1,200 armed soldiers, media cameras and pro-segregationist governor Orval Faubus, the Little Rock Nine made their way to Central High.

Recommended Videos The students who integrated Central High School were known as the Little Rock Nine. For three weeks in September 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus used the National Guard to ...

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 ...

Thelma Mothershed Wair, a Member of the Little Rock Nine Who Integrated an Arkansas School, Has Died Thelma Mothershed Wair, one of the nine Black students who integrated a high school in Arkansas ...