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Thelma Mothershed married Fred Wair on December 26, 1965, and became Thelma Mothershed-Wair. Fred Wair was born on October 6, 1939, and died at age 65 on May 25, 2005, in Cahokia, Illinois . [ 10 ] Thelma and Fred had one son, Scott, and two grandchildren. [ 10 ]
The capital city mourns the loss of Little Rock Nine member Thelma Mothershed-Wair It’s safe to say that Mothershed-Wair’s life wasn’t in vain, city and state leaders all making it clear as ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Thelma Mothershed as herself (also archive footage) See also. Civil rights movement in popular culture; References External links. Nine from Little ...
"Society of the Snow" is earning raves for its a ccurate depiction of the terrifying 1972 plane crash in the Andes mountains that involved a Uruguayan rugby team.. The new Netflix drama, directed ...
The Ernest Green Story is a 1993 American made-for-television biographical film which follows the true story of Ernest Green (Morris Chestnut) and eight other African-American high-school students (dubbed the "Little Rock Nine") as they embark on their historic journey to integrate Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.