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

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

-- 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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.

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 ...