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Carlotta Walls LaNier (born December 18, 1942) was the youngest member of the "Little Rock Nine", the nine African American students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. She returned her senior year in 1959. She now lives in Englewood, Colorado, and is involved in real estate. LaNier attended Michigan State University for two years before moving with her family to Denver. In 1968, she earned a Bachelor of Science from Colorado State College, (now the University of Northern Colorado.) In 1977, she founded LaNier and Company, a real estate brokerage firm.
LaNier is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Northern Colorado.
Excerpt from the 50th anniversary program;
In September 1957 Carlotta was the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine, but she was born in December of 1942, she was the oldest of Juanita and Cartelyou Walls’ three daughters. A veteran of World War II, her father worked as a black mason after the war, and her mother, a graduate of Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School in Little Rock, worked as a secretary in the Office of Public Housing.
Carlotta attended Stephens Elementary School and moved on to Dunbar Junior High where she graduated from 9th grade in 1957. She became one of three African Americans who would begin their high school career by integrating Little Rock Central High School rather than attending Horace Mann High School. Carlotta planned on becoming a doctor and realized that the laboratory facilities and science curriculum at Central High would prepare her for college better than Horace Mann could.
Because of her light-colored skin, Little Rock School District Administrators briefly considered achieving “desegregation” at Central High without anyone noticing Carlotta became the only African-American student at the school. Fortunately, the parents of all nine students, as well as NAACP officials, made sure that potentially dangerous scheme never happened.
Carlotta’s lab partner in biology, Hazel Machon, remembers her as a dedicated student who worked hard despite frequent interruptions from other students. A gifted athlete, Carlotta gained some notoriety for successfully-and permanently-fending off one of her perpetual tormentors.
In the fall of 1958, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus closed Little Rock’s public high schools rather than continue with desegregation. With no school to attend, Carlotta received tutoring provided by the NAACP to keep up. In the fall of 1959, she returned to Central High with Jefferson Thomas for their senior year and graduated on May 30, 1960.
Carlotta spent two years at Michigan State University before moving to Denver with her family so her father could find work. In 1968, she finished her degree at Colorado State College, now the University of North Colorado, where she sits on the board of trustees. That same year, she married Ira C. “Ike” LaNeir. Carlotta began her career in the nonprofit sector working for the YWCA as a program administrator and founded her own real estate brokerage firm in 1977.