Thelma Harper (1940-2021)

Thelma Harper (1940-2021)

by Otis Alexander | Apr 29, 2023 | African American History, People

Thelma Marie Claybrooks Harper, born in Brentwood, Davidson County, Tennessee, on December 2, 1940, was the first African American woman State Senator in Tennessee. She was born to the Rev. William Claybrooks, Sr., and Clora Thomas Claybrooks, a sharecropper who...