Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has ordered that the U.S. and Arkansas state flags be flown at half-staff on October 26, in memory of Thelma Mothershed Wair.

One of the nine Black students who integrated a high school in Arkansas’ capital city in 1957 while a mob of white segregationists yelled threats and insults at them has died at age 83.

Many are mourning the loss of an Arkansan who inspired change for the better and changed African-American education across the nation.