Pre-interview with Thelma Mothershed Wair

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If. Your tummy some things. Which are. All. About. Oh. I have been talking to a lot of. My students. There and. Some of the same things that it was for a good story but. A. Mere few days have. Remembered. Everything. Twice A. Year. Because we just can't accept it. And. Can begin to feel like it at the back of the book. If one may be able to pump the water and then made a bet that all of. Those but. I still have the gall that all I could believe didn't agree to make that a good thing like with the full for the Maple a good thing you don't get to put it. Think about that.
But. When you decide that you want to go to central it was because of. This. Round of visits a closer school. Be it in the head and I heard that they had a boy content. Curriculum. Then the one at the back I go. And get the feeling. That with one of these are my friends and I think that of me is worth out of and go there. When was to. What should be Daisy page. And. They did this for their hand because of involvement within the platy. Thank you now for the public and black weekly newspaper. So I do love her but you know not at all though I don't have. To deal with. Did you all get the newspaper gift idea. I just I just entre not. She. Or signs. Nothing. She has newspaper and stuff and starting to think yeah I think it's hard to get a little break here though
because I get to concur with. You I think again we haven't had that here. The family. That. You seem to be is as you said she and her speech is. Slurred. I guess the strokes cover it but she just sounds like so. To me. So no. You haven't got it in you get it there. Very good lady. I. Don't want to know if you could tell me about. When your purse. With your purse with your first steps to. Be for a sense that there might have been a. Problem. Things might not be. As simple as. Just going to Central right now if you stems. From a story that come up on both the birth. Were acceptable to build. Until. They were put. Into. An. Account at the Committee of the year and they. Would. Tell us things about the.
Movie including the fact. That. With the A. Because they'd be in the end it could be for activities that. Can keep a low profile out until the pain so I get that we're both equally good that we're giving When I love the sea could increase. Because the goal would be a part of the bigger body. But not do anything with the respect. Extra curricular things to do with glee club. Stuff. Right right. Never mind they did build a play that they did. Did you find. That the story of your experiment. Step. Forward with the curbing that this was a real real agate but I like to think like it has been in the account of the Nixon that sort of thing. But over there and there but the board could because they didn't in the and the athletic so other than this really explained that I'll be. Because basically he didn't. Even remember. The first day of school. The first day when. When.
The governor came on. The air and announced to. The news media because of the troops the next day and there were the that indicate here that he would not go. To the hill and Avengers that. Were open in that dump lately with the Earth could be easily related in. The Good Friday. I think with all the cable TV rules how I found it. Create the wackiest that he would do something and we felt it would appeal to the ridiculous that they thought they had to. Eat. The change. In the way of topics that affect. Really claimed also that there were. Elements. That were. Going to. Cause disruption. Supposedly he was trying to. Protect. The city and said Peace because there would be. No answer. Miles. Nowhere. Really. No no no we weren't and then after the mob
had it out bad down and we shall be. Like they broke the county didn't. They. Get maybe they had to be good people warning the people from over here you would be coming in that they felt like you integrated proceeded in good rock then they had to take with beatnik. The headlight out that they will make up a large part the property. What was that. What happened that day. You all got together did you get together to be here for the deal we were going after the house and we count the. Days. When I had my brother throw. Up or kill me. And. Bring in. Our little room and I think that I will probably be weaker that they need to be and what you can do with. Me. That morning. I can feel kind of unclear for believe how they. Really
get. Roped in. I get a group that couldn't cope because the power of the object of. Building. The building is that they are worth what it had been that we could do that given the cloak that you know they would have. Got there. You know Brad got rid of that and he did have help from. The brothers. Oh with a bit of what with the. Meeting. That he built but then he got up and sat with a lot of people conjured her it you know the terrible part for. Any. Approach. To. The next. Part of that but oh thank you. Will be in it and it. Kills me. That. You. Don't know it was of the right. Word. To. Deal. With. This. Sit. Down. Quiet. Mild mannered. That member. You know you didn't do. There.
Are concrete and hard for me and quiet through. The. Day to. Write down anything to remember why she wanted to go to the center. No I don't because. We're not one of their plans to be a burthen counted that together with beneath the help of Phil. And I felt the birth of the tree and no girl we knew but you know they were of the approach. So when did you find out that. The descent happens. You know they were maybe being one week we can remember that point when I could pay the help and were told what had happened to rebuild. America. I can imagine it was a terrible shock. Indeed but it worked for her than anybody else. Remember. This me how it's made you feel about. The. Neurons that you are.
Well in a way it made accountable after they get maybe kind of have to give in but the end on moving up the line will appear that they did the dance is a. Leader and. You know. Who the boat began to fade to black belt and people in the bed on the approach akin to where they feel that they could get the best education I think you can. And make me more. Determined. That you were right when we just said that that was true most of the students the average. Joe. What about your parents for their. Support of a less supportive. Or. They were very bad. What if they told me that you know I didn't have Rebecca back didn't want to look at. The field in. The lab but I felt like I could handle it but they didn't try to stop. The way they did but to most of them are. Treated. For it. I'm through a. Rather good. They were very. Bored and I get that all that work that you know that if they had they probably
feel as that that you know well conquering it. The internet is full of it they can do a lot of it but it won't hurt physically the bad the book of the year but while the National Guard when they know nothing. While the national the national guard was in place. You all did not do well tonight. Continue every day to go to the school because they were there with the overhauled plane you'll need to be on the nominee Romney effort you've made to enter the room. While the national down I think we can add that they do and they come down a bit between what. The court and we went back and we had to leave immediately because that was after they removed the. Second one. Came back to provide that there but I'm happy because of that I think it's not a. Matter like there's an open Fed you know the last car will remember that we did go into the bay and had granted that.
We are open to a base. Good men and women over there that were you know good not good that we had to rent I could put it out for me that they have been paying and invited some kids in Baghdad. But I doubt that they were here for any of that they fell apart you know they they thought they'd better get a biggie is that they got that that they didn't get what was. With that. Night. Those first. Couple of times trying to go to the school and you're only. High schools to. Know. About seven and I think 16 and trying to. Trying to get on what was supposed to be an. Ordinary could be a very high but I guess that being young people get their benefit and think that it is so bad that they that it was really good you know
kind of get. Out of the. Thing and the kind of. There were no but I was America really. Was any of this. Teton to Stradivari it was directed directly and you get. To you know when they are playing the love boat up and down. Oh there's always that day something the both the law have to say the right thing and. I think Cracker the door there were a few who were. Very Albert the hospital. And. A few. Who were and the big boys really late for the park I'd been going there. And I get that probably with good birth. That they did that before. You said you're good friends with. Mobile. So. I mean I would. Go be mean in Melbourne. We used to get to Chile in Africa. I would get right across. Anything. When the boy came in particular are he. The story I've heard is that he had been.
After for a loan. Yeah. She. Would. Jim do we surprise did you know that did you think that she might someone get this good idea being edited you can get it back. Maybe he did deliberately because some think a robot one day but I would say that there were people of the book for he had never according to our vote that I could fancy I get that there with my mouth open and he pulled the stuff over they gathered and they were there came a witness. OK I think. That that. There was that. Means that there are two people that you know they had come now prepared because they had to go. They coming up where they left now. And. The way come from there they were there and they came and got them apart before he could. Do anything to him. But he had to get them back in the home. With Indian.
Sounding. Something that really just. Almost literally. We're. Actually. Black. Go. On. When everybody else was. Going. Down. Did you did you know it's. Good that they. Found out. It was and you. Know she wasn't you. Know going to the thing it would hurt the juniors That's right he was I'm sorry. Well I know you're. A marked man looking for the good he did with the population you know. But any intelligent person there by you know the bright of their bad no I know rather be that way but I do her to bend his head and heart to. Where the counselor and the father doing I. Think it's probably the. Fear. That. If.
There's. One over there and they do it when they play like. You mean to. Them. Gee do you remember some. Of. The Tampa. Bay year and especially. When everything you didn't really mind that you're the. Number one thing that I remember vividly. Why have there. Behind the curtain Airborne Division at green and blue. In. There with our Intel card. And neighbor knowing he didn't know a lot about it. No. And. Not from my friend and I were waiting in the entire building for my mother to come in because the. Roof. And the doors opened and a wide open for them and that they left a little bit make leave and get out in there. The boys who are. Packing. Go packing rock with the World album and grew on me that are there in the Gardner We're getting her back into the bill and get a break I'm going to rock the.
Building then borne out. Time to. Go as they were you know. At the detail of the front page. And that. And the immensely overweight they were feel toward. Rock. And. That. Was. With. The soul. So. Much. I don't know. When they were there. In the first. Oh you know remember the guard was an absolute doubt that I could be back where I came from a bit there present probably me but first they didn't take the first tryst. No you know they were all markers all of them through a lot of people were petrol. And. They were not into. The integration. Of the. People that they. Think they did a lot of the attorney to. Kill it with him. And. Were there. With. The memory. Of words.
Helpful or. Reduce the easier for you. There were some. Girls. In the home with them and. Pray. And I. Hope you know we had been made up for there to have a partner. So I mean there was a man who was caught with Gallo will. I want. They didn't that they didn't build her back with the baggage fee and they would have been off back to fail. But they were. Bored. I. Heard. One. Of the other words. She didn't realize. All these things. Were. Black. Sheep. To do. But she stayed. Because she didn't really have any classes. Are any separatist on occasion. She just had no. Idea what happened to us all. And she. Says. That. She didn't have. To deal. With.
You. And me and they were my kids and Nana but I'm sure I was going to Rwanda where the greenery around. Within the gay community about how we tell the police because I did have about a career with a different. Number. And then next week we go we go than cafeteria caught a bus and I with it. Did you. Did you get together. And. Teach you how to support each other. Well OK. After we found a guy he would go with me that they have been a peon. Go back there in the evening and could. Call while my out to let the air out the media probable cases then. We can get enough support to go. Forward with what happened. According. To you. Look how could you compare your time when. Compared to the others to the other words do. You think you had a harder time than most of them I had a much easier time than both of
mine because they had a heart condition. And I did not take the case that the health and the place where they couldn't get you know in contact with them when they met with a lot of guilty people. You know get them in the shower and bump the hard to adopt the kind of again play. And I would figure that my choir will help pray so that's what they get for the time. That the girls get harassed. Physically. As well. Yes maybe. And it is no good old days. We carry the book. With. The pros on the ball the arrow and the like is God the. Face if he is in the upper part in the book that Robert Chua accidently could live with. You. But there were you know we can we did the same thing. So that little. League. Team here. Will get into their. Own. Did you know Miss is not to be in the.
Mater on occasion. Want to be called the office because. I think we're coming up a player they are now in the group were broken before. And the. Crowd around the group again I didn't create content. And as I want to play at the top of the car building and the company who all think and live through all the din for all that I. Do that it occurred. That he loved. Me and I think he'd be so given it was awful. Well Val the valid broken up train they have to. Do the handling. To crack. And. You know we talk about they got told that I did not get to appear to be united over and I had no reason to care. But then he went on to tell of the one that made it through I think a lot of the DNC did get their name in the room. I get that they wouldn't appoint another program and if it fell the paper and they knew that they could get it for the drill bit of that particular flag and your phone even going. To
think of the found. Not guilty. They. Do you think there was a round. Of exaggeration. That. The people in the press just bought it wholesale power with them. They think they brought that old Amanda letting could take care of. I was going to ask you. What. I wanted. To tell them. Oh. Good to see you have a. Harder time. I think that about the fate of the earth that he was involved in any place like that where they get the FULL of the parade. I'll get that in early grew up over me got about the same amount. Of the book you. Did which she used. Her faith in California but I don't know where you have the key to our program and do you. Really. Have a cult will do you. You know she's married. He was very good for acknowledging marriage and. You know you don't. Marry.
Because he will be the ONLY be you. Feel that. Your bethink. Just. The sound of she's one of the first two trying to get attention because we came across a piece of footage. Of the. Pope. Told me. He did a show with Bill Donahue. Oh you read the paper with me. Yeah yeah gotta do seven oh ok. OK. If you don't go gunning for they up there we had to give you up. Interning in. The world. Bill back. To you. Do you think that the. Back of. The. Digital. World. Both of them were. There if you do. Want. To do is. Work you. Home and keep your.
Account of. The rain. Came with the little train. Think that were there when we were half a cup of coffee going to be added to. The name would take me a couple days at baby after the ending with the outcome and get her madly at the Pentagon it would take so I would put it down a bit. And then he would find it and put it in the book and that a better approach would be. That I would think that would be a good get something to do with her pray that what is about to be. Expelled cruel. And then they were the head of an alphabetical order and they may be you know. Them but again I think a broker I was there about to. Meet God. No proof every month even though. I knew. That when. The. Time we. Get to build a little.
Train. Little thing. That the brick. Right. Right there. With their. Job really funny things that happen. Does that mean the Chili Peppers a new chapter is kind of funny in itself a ya know. Beach where suspended after. School she's a California chunk of which is standing right here in New York. She was. In a lot of that's right yes she had. The diva brownie things that haven't you thought. Were. On. The back. Of it but they were running. But don't put that productive curricular activity their baby and have happily account for every morning the week that that will be with an apple. She would or would not we would have nothing we could get the we want the apple but they only can the Grafx help to reach.
For an amount of the Taliban from the heat over to the camp with paint one for we could let the high paint it with the with it at the piano while the. Girl went. That'd be good and your help together really in a pretty good frame of mind and cannot hear from the. People. Who own the car to the group. You get to. Play. The. Captain didn't. Happen. Where there are. Those of you really in the end you really didn't think it your way. The real danger I mean is. It. Sounds like. Difficult days but. You didn't do it you're in danger of no activity at all in the most beautiful thing I remember. Doing no cold. And they. Were. Right on pretty good night at the hundred came into town to walk among television or agree the rock and the river that were right. And we may even think I think that the big one the major one going in. Critical. That were right there behind you that you don't like that we had and we can certainly feel pain to
feel you know that they have a point. I'm sure Hank. Absolute. Absolute. And. That's. Really. Just instead. It does. Sound like you really. Adjusted pretty well. I think. I have been trying to get in touch with. Elizabeth Eckford and I and. I understood from. Other people. Over there. That she's. Not giving any. She was also very. Very. Right. I think will pick up anything you want but. Remember that through. The year you know they both are my family. Fill the bucket with the. Feeling. That you know that he ran into me because of the. Heat and the. Mild and they are. Good but always there about me but I have. Her. Number. If. You come. To claim to. Be. There. When. You were. Born. With.
And the. Record there with I think through to the very early. Years of one. Comeback of the military. And you could do it here and I would hear and see. Quite a. Number of years now. So you see your mother still. About whole family will found and then one brother and his family. Did you have any. Of the younger children you were younger brothers or sisters. Yesterday it had my friend my brother Michael who is where he is younger than I have. Been. Banned. From the. Town of a little. Car. So he was to be was really young. She's over to young to remember. Right. What about your. Real teacher. And a walking poles.
There were the brothers who were unable to get down the man and the mic you know being at. The Rocky Point. At. The end with the bell to get it here OK. I mean. You can bet that a black eye. For you. Will be a great impact on the program. With any of your family and other family outside the year. Your. Mother and father to day and give you any advice or show any concern. I'll think. Of one brother with all. My minutes and the head of the family of you know the whole clay and more of their own and yet I'm not in pain and we are pro-family. Oh yeah they're like out not because I come out of. The whisper with with. Your openness to the same period. It kept going and keep the place for me and the world you know the whole truth.
Do you go to one of the reasons I went to the one we had in I think the road where we had one in the group of about. Four years ago. So you don't go to the question that you don't. Know. That do you. Well probably after he read it isn't the place for you to build theirs. That's right because when they're sure they're. Right on. What. To do. Well there are a range of the main points. They are on the. Books. For the market. But the couple are branded. With. The end. Of the book. The man in the comic. And now when. I came to the table with that time line and deal with Frank if I could remember the river bank you know he was a lawyer very well known around the theory and. I think the current could of course but I felt that I was. Really very good at the time that I've been off my mate.
Now. Is not the normal you've heard in Carbondale. And why they. Kept it. Somewhere now which. I don't. But they are there. They told me that I did one for her with her. But they make my arrangement for me I want the universe to hide them on campus. And of course for. One method. And output the complete record that thing time. The kid could put up with all with me I'm going to have to be in want to write a complicated stuff in it. OK I put the baby to great effect to kill. And control. They'll be mad to cope. Rather than they could have got the clone. So there was no real. You. You weren't really part of any particular clarity and ok at all. Now what they have been the now late of the year they have a year for a player that wouldn't be here and they found. The black. And cleaned up and the old I have now and I think you know it would have
greatly that had that been good that you are always right. Oh man. Thank. You. Mean the ones to. Say. It's really only. You. Troll makers. Once a. Month. Once you. Troll. Really. The. Center of perception. I think of the time between the broken brain and we get together for free rein for the call to go. For. The doing. And the wonder with the family be somebody. But it took a few days. For the ones who were. Aboard. The four to get home with. And I'm sure you see the. Famous picture. Of the. Most rabid. Crowd. Scream she's won very big before they say. To give me just one. Very dignified way. Rounds speak to me
give you space here be here did you ever. Know Rich. To give money to it one of the girls hand her with her mouth wide open the famed Samedi Hopper AFAIK. One of the girls for her to be with 10 people with a big troublemaker from a vehicle. People didn't think people like you keep the depth of. My. Soul. You. Idiot. OK I'm going to. Stop.
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- Telephone pre-interview with Thelma Mothershed Wair, a member of the Little Rock Nine. Discussion centered on the integration crisis at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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- 1985-10-14
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Interviewee: Wair, Thelma Mothershed
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- Chicago: “Pre-interview with Thelma Mothershed Wair,” 1985-10-14, Film and Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed July 16, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-151-7940r9mk3w.
- MLA: “Pre-interview with Thelma Mothershed Wair.” 1985-10-14. Film and Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. July 16, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-151-7940r9mk3w>.
- APA: Pre-interview with Thelma Mothershed Wair. Boston, MA: Film and Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-151-7940r9mk3w