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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 ...
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 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.
Thelma Mothershed-Wair, 83, American counselor, member of the Little Rock Nine, complications from multiple sclerosis. [498] Lonnie Randolph, Jr., 74, American civil rights activist. [499] Brunilde Ridgway, 94, Italian-born American archaeologist and academic. [500]
Thelma Mothershed as herself (also archive footage) See also. Civil rights movement in popular culture; References External links. Nine from Little ...