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Thelma Davidson Adair (Thelma Cornelia Davidson) was born on 29 August, 1920 in Iron Station, North Carolina, U.S., is an American civil rights activist. Discover Thelma Davidson Adair's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 103 years old?

Popular As Thelma Cornelia Davidson
Occupation Presbyterian church leader, educator, social advocate/activist, and writer
Age 103 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 29 August 1920
Birthday 29 August
Birthplace Iron Station, North Carolina, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1920

Thelma Davidson Adair ( Thelma Cornelia Davidson; August 29, 1920) is an American educator, Presbyterian church leader, advocate for human rights, peace and justice issues, writer and activist.

She has been active with Church Women United, a Christian women's advocacy movement.

She is an ordained Elder for the Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church of New York City in Harlem.

Adair was born Thelma Cornelia Davidson in 1920 in Iron Station, North Carolina, one of six children.

She lived there while in elementary school.

Her family subsequently moved to Kings Mountain, North Carolina.

1940

She married, in 1940, the Reverend Arthur Eugene Adair, founder and minister of the church from 1943 until his death in 1979.

Adair is an advocate for early childhood education and helped to establish Head Start programs in Harlem.

1942

She has lived in Harlem since 1942 and is professor emeritus of Queens College, a CUNY college.

She married Reverend Dr. Arthur Eugene Adair and they moved to New York City in 1942.

He became a Senior Pastor of Mount Morris United Presbyterian Church (UPC).

Adair is an affiliated graduate from Barber–Scotia College (Concord, North Carolina) and Bennett College (Greensboro, North Carolina).

She earned a master's degree and Doctorate of Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Like many African Americans and Americans, Adair participated in the World War II efforts at home and abroad.

She worked in a war plant.

She inspected radar tubes.

She was also a young mother at the time.

She described her experience:

"This was a period of perhaps the greatest number of lynchings. Everything was separate. Total restrictions. And at every moment you could be humiliated just because of color. Despite the denial, despite the tragedy, despite the suffering, black folks, colored folks, Negro, Afro-Americans, claim America. This was your country, and so the loyalty, and this is the mystery of it all, was so strong that you never, even as we worked in war plants, even as we brought our crippled back, even as we buried our dead and got flags – we were not fighting for someone else. We too were America, and we only wanted the chance and the opportunity that we could have to sit at the table."

Adair was an organizer for West Harlem Head Start Programs.

1944

In 1944 she was an organizer for Mt. Morris UPC's Project Uplift, a precursor to the Arthur Eugene and Thelma Adair Community Life Center Head Start.

The center services more than 250 children throughout various locations in Harlem.

Adair has published and written numerous articles on early childhood education.

Her publications are authoritative guides for early childhood educators throughout the United States.

1950

She attended the Selma, Alabama, 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

1976

Adair was the moderator for the 1976 Assembly United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (UPCUSA).

In 1976, Adair was elected as a Moderator of the General Assembly for the Presbyterian Church, the first black woman to attain this role, travelling to 115 countries during her term.

She is one of the original founders of Presbyterian Senior Services, and is a participant with the Fellowship of the "Least Coin", a worldwide prayer movement.

1980

She was president of Church Women United from 1980 to 1984.

2011

She was honored in 2011 by Congressman Charles Rangel.