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.

News came this weekend that Thelma Mothershed Wair, one of the Little Rock Nine, has died. She was 83.

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