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 ...

At the end of 2024 came the christening of the USS Arkansas, a Virginia-class nuclear submarine, at Newport News Shipbuilding ...

Minnijean Brown-Trickey does not consider herself a hero. When her school made an announcement asking if anyone wanted to attend Little Rock Central High School in the fall of 1957, she signed up.

Philadelphia Eagles safety Rodney McLeod shares a story of the Little Rock 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 ...

In 1957, she was one of nine Black teenagers in Arkansas who enrolled at an all-white school following Brown vs. Board of Education. They're known as the Little Rock Nine. Just 15 years old at the ...

If you have extra time, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site is worthwhile. In 1957, nine Black students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School. The school had been all ...

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 ...