APRIL 29, 2023, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: OTIS ALEXANDER 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 parented eleven children. Her early education began in a […]

THELMA HARPER (1940-2021)