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Member of Little Rock Nine christens nuclear submarine named for Arkansas

Dec. 08, 2024 04:00 AM EST

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — The nuclear submarine USS Arkansas was christened Saturday, almost a decade in the making since the U.S. Navy announced that a Virginia-class submarine would bear the state's name. Carlotta Walls LaNier, one the nine Black students who desegregated Little...

Thelma Mothershed Wair, a member of the Little Rock Nine who integrated an Arkansas school, has died

Oct. 21, 2024 16:20 PM EDT

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, has died at age 83. Mothershed Wair died Saturday at a hospital in Little Rock after...