segunda-feira, 6 de setembro de 2010

Little Rock Nine member Jefferson Thomas dies

From the Associated Press




Fellow Little Rock Nine member Minnijean Trickey Brown says Thomas died Sunday. Trickey Brown did not know the cause of death and declined further comment.



In 1957, Thomas and Trickey Brown joined Elizabeth Eckford, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed Wair, Terrence Roberts, Melba Patillo Beals and Ernest Green in becoming the first black students to attend Little Rock Central High School. President Dwight Eisenhower dispatched the 101st Airborne to escort the students after Little Rock after Gov. Orval Faubus tried to prevent them from enrolling at the school.

Los Angeles Times