Thelma Mothershed Wair
American activist
Died when: 83 years 325 days (1006 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Thelma Mothershed-Wair (born November 29, 1940) 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.The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas.
They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D.Eisenhower.
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