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Thelma Mothershed Wair, Little Rock Nine member, dies at 83

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Thelma Mothershed Wair, who was one of the nine Black students confronted by the Arkansas National Guard after arriving to integrate Little Rock Central High School, galvanizing the Civil Rights Movement, has died at 83. Wair went on to college and later earned a master’s degree before becoming a beloved teacher and career counselor. Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist remembers a life well lived.

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