Thelma Mothershed Wair gained nationwide fame as a child, when she became a Little Rock Nine member and helped ... 1958, when Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus invoked a new state law to halt ...

Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard ... blocked nine African- American students — known as the Little Rock Nine — from entering Central High School.

The governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, had promised in the 1957 election ... At that point, Ernest Green, the only one of the Little Rock Nine who was old enough, graduated from Central High.