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Thelma C. Davidson Adair (born 1919) is a Presbyterian educator, guest speaker educator, and activist. She has been a resident of Harlem since 1942. She has been active with Church Women United, a Christian women's advocacy movement. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Educator returns to childhood home )〕 Adair is a 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.〔http://www.tc.columbia.edu/newsroom/articles/2015/march/in-the-washington-post-en-route-to-selma-tc-alumna-thelma-adair-shares-memorie/〕 She is an ordained Elder for the Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church of New York City in Harlem. Adair was the moderator for the 1976 Assembly Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Her husband is the late Reverend Arthur Eugene Adair. Her husband was a minister of the church from 1943 to 1979. He died in 1979.〔http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/06/garden/in-harlem-grace-of-the-past.html〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Congressional Record, Volume 157 Issue 50 (Thursday, April 7, 2011) )〕 Adair is an advocate for early childhood education and helped to establish Head Start programs in Harlem. She is Professor Emeritus of the City University of Queens College, City University of New York. == Early life == Adair was born in Iron Station, North Carolina, and lived there while in elementary school. Adair grew up during a period of North America history in the Southern United States known as Jim Crow. She was born in 1922, in Iron Station, North Carolina, one of five children. She was born Thelma Cornelia Davidson. Her family then moved to Kings Mountain, North Carolina. She married Reverend Dr. Arthur Eugene Adair. They moved to New York City in 1942. He because a Senior Pastor of St. John's Episcopal Church (Mount Morris, New York), and is a Harlem and Presbyterian educator.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thelma C. Davidson Adair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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