Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Little Rock Central High School student hangs a medal around the neck of one of the bronze statues of the Little Rock Nine, part ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Legendary Arkansas activist and member of the Little Rock Nine, Thelma Mothershed-Wair, has died at the age of 83. Thelma Mothershed-Wair and the rest of the Little Rock Nine was ...

U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. declared the Pulaski County Special School District unitary in an order Thursday morning, closing a school desegregation case that has spanned four Little ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A monument depicts the Little Rock Nine outside the Arkansas Capitol on Jan. 12, 2026. (Photo by Andrew DeMillo/Arkansas Advocate) ...

Each morning, Little Rock Nine student Melba Pattillo "polished my saddle shoes and went off to war." Elizabeth Huckaby, then Central's vice principal for girls, is quoted from a letter to her brother ...

Four of the Little Rock Nine. From left to right: Minnijean Brown-Trickey, Elizabeth Eckford, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Terrence Roberts and moderator Brian Schwieger from the National Park Service ...

In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that "separate but equal" public schools were unconstitutional and ordered and end to segregation in schools across the U.S.

1957: National Guard troops form a line in a street to enforce desegregation at Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. Credit - Paul Slade—Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Trump and his allies argue ...

LITTLE ROCK, AR (KATV) — 68 years ago, 9 black teenagers made history doing what many didn’t want them to do. They became the first Black students to integrate the former all white Little Rock Central ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a decision keeping the Little Rock School District under federal desegregation monitoring, which has been in effect since 1965. A ...