Minnijean Brown-Trickey was one of nine teenagers who helped to break the bonds of segregation when they were the first Black ...

-- Of the honors that Elizabeth Eckford and the other members of the Little Rock Nine have received since taking part in the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in 1957, the 83-year ...

According to reports, Thelma Mothershed, one of the members of the Little Rock Nine, passed away over the weekend. In 1957, ...

In 1957, the post-World War II baby boom peaked. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Arkansas to uphold the court-ordered integration of public schools, and the Little Rock Nine bravely ...

During the summer of 1957, he called for a delay to desegregation ... At that point, Ernest Green, the only one of the Little Rock Nine who was old enough, graduated from Central High.

Carlotta Walls LaNier, one the nine Black students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, launched a bottle of sparkling wine into the hull of the Virginia-class submarine at ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 25--Citizens of this border ... only a handful saw the United States Army staff car which unloaded nine Negro students in front of Central High School at 9:22 this morning.

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 ...

When her school made an announcement asking if anyone wanted to attend Little Rock Central High School in the fall of 1957, she signed ... one of the “Little Rock Nine" — the first Black ...