In 1957, she and eight other Black students — the Little Rock Nine — enrolled in a high school in the face of racist mobs and a resistant Jim Crow governor.

She and eight other students integrated Central High School in Little Rock in 1957 while a mob of White segregationists yelled threats and insults.

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.