Thelma and the Little Rock Nine opened doors for others," turning "civil wrongs to civil rights." Nine member Roberts quoted from a profile he wrote of Mothershed Wair in one of his books.
Wair, a civil rights pioneer, who was laid to rest.Channel 7 News was invited to attend the wake and ceremony.
Thelma Mothershed Wair, one of nine Black students who became known as the Little Rock Nine for integrating a high school in 1957 in an explosive confrontation during the civil rights struggle ...
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, ...
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 ...