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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Carlotta Walls LaNier and Bob Elliot discuss LaNier’s memoir, “A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School” and the historical struggles of the Little Rock Nine on Friday, Feb. 9, at Palo Verde High School Minnijean Brown, Terrance Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls were the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School. (Photo by Antonia Muskat, Arizona Sonoran News)

Youngest of Little Rock Nine recalls struggles 77 years after landmark Brown v. Board of Ed

Antonia Muskat, Reporter/Photographer February 13, 2024

In a powerful celebration of Black History Month, Carlotta Walls LaNier, the youngest member of the historic Little Rock Nine, stood before a captivated audience at Palo Verde High School on Friday, Feb....

State's African American leaders remembered in Black History Month

State’s African American leaders remembered in Black History Month

Jaime Odom February 2, 2015

There was no Selma march. No historical speech from Martin Luther King Jr. No rallies that drew national attention. But deep in Arizona’s past is a litany of stories about the roles African Americans...

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