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 ...

In 1957, nine Black students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School. The school had been all-white since its construction in 1927. Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green ...

Philadelphia Eagles safety Rodney McLeod shares a story of the Little ... Nine who were a group of nine African American students who made national headlines when they integrated Little Rock ...

Blossom’s plan was a compromise, allowing a small amount of integration, but it led to huge resistance. The governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, had promised in the 1957 election to stop ...

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During the event, Sanders spoke about the impact of the Little Rock Nine, when nine black students attempted to attend the all-white Central High School back in 1957. Two members of the Little ...