Photo: #In this photo taken Sept. 23, 2007, Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was one of nine black students to integrate Little Rock Central High School, listens during a panel discussion in Little Rock, Ark. Thomas, 68, died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010, in Ohio.
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In this photo taken Sept. 23, 2007, Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was one of nine black students to integrate Little Rock Central High School, listens during a panel discussion in Little Rock, Ark. Thomas, 68, died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010, in Ohio. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

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Desegregation history-maker Jefferson Thomas dies


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One of the Little Rock Nine, the first black students to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957, died Sunday. American RadioWorks and NPR's Juan Williams tell the story on Midday.

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