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Thelma Mothershed-Wair (née Mothershed; November 29, 1940 – October 19, 2024) was an American activist who was the eldest member of the Little Rock Nine group, who attended Little Rock's Central High School following the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education court case.
Thelma Mothershed-Wair took her last breath on October 19, on Saturday her funeral services were held at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church where her family, friends, and people of the ...
She says Thelma Mothershed-Wair’s legacy will forever live. Thomas’s daughter Vonda is a graduate of Central High and got a chance to meet Mothershed-Wair before her death.
Her husband died in 2005, and Mothershed Wair moved back to Little Rock, Davis said. According to the National Park Service, Mothershed Wair worked in the East St. Louis, Illinois, school system for 10 years as a home economics teacher and for 18 years as a counselor for elementary career education before retiring in 1994.
Thelma Mothershed Wair, 83. One of nine Black students who integrated a high school in Arkansas’ capital city of Little Rock in 1957 while a mob of white segregationists yelled threats and insults.
On November 19, 2022, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Carlotta Walls LaNier and Thelma Mothershed-Wair etched their initials onto metal plates that were then welded onto the keel of the attack submarine USS Arkansas in a ceremony at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia. The plates will remain affixed to the ...
The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2024. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. October 2024 1 Michael Ancram, 13th Marquess of Lothian ...
Thelma Mothershed Wair, a member of the Little Rock Nine who integrated an Arkansas school, has died Atlanta is America’s past and future How to turn fun HBCU Homecoming memories into powerful ...