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    Jefferson Thomas

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  1. Jefferson Allison Thomas (September 19, 1942 – September 5, 2010) was one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

  2. Nov 6, 2023 · In 1964, Thomas narrated the documentary Nine from Little Rock, which won an Academy Award. After serving in the Army in the Vietnam War, he worked for Mobil Oil and eventually became an accountant for the United States Department of Defense.

  3. Sep 6, 2010 · (CNN) -- Jefferson Thomas, one of the so-called "Little Rock Nine," the nine students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, has died, according to...

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  5. Sep 7, 2010 · Jefferson Thomas, one of the nine black students who integrated an all-white high school in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957 in a landmark confrontation of the civil rights movement, died...

  6. Sep 6, 2010 · Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation's first major battle over school segregation, has died. He was 68.

  7. Sep 6, 2010 · Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation's first major battle over school segregation, has died. He was 68.

  8. Sep 7, 2010 · Jefferson Thomas, one of nine students who in 1957 integrated a Little Rock, Ark., high school, a turning point for the civil rights movement, has died.

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