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Zelma O'Neal (1903 – 1989) was an American actress, singer, and dancer in the 1920s and 1930s. She appeared on Broadway and in early sound films, including the Paramount Pictures films Paramount on Parade and Follow Thru (both 1930).
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Zelma Watson George (1903 – 1994) was a well-known African-American philanthropist and opera singer. She was famous for being an alternate in the United Nations General Assembly and, as a headliner in Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera The Medium, the first African American to play a role that was typically played by a white actress.
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Zelma Henderson (born Zelma Cleota Hurst; 1920 – 2008) was an American civil rights activist. She was the last surviving plaintiff in the 1954 landmark federal school desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education. The case outlawed segregation nationwide in all of the United States' public schools. The ruling served as a harbinger of the American Civil Rights Movement and paved the way for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed segregation in all public facilities.
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Also the Latvian form of Selma: https://www.pmlp.gov.lv/lv/sakums/statistika/personvardu-datu-baze/?id=137&query=Zelma.
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The name Zelma was given to 13 girls born in the US in 2015.
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Ah, I personally think this name is beautiful. It was the name of my brother's grandmother, and I'll always remember it. I don't think it's witchy, more mystical and almost ethereal. Definitely better than naming your child a boring present name.
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I don't think those saying the name Zelma sounds "witchy" necessarily mean it as an insult. They just mean it has a kind of... "magical" edge to it. I think using a Z instead of an S helps.
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Zelma is my wife, a Hispanic Jew by ancestory;I had never heard the name either until I met her, born and raised in Brooklyn, NY by Puerto Rican parents. I see no need to say a name sounds like a witch, we all have our given names. Just saying.
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This is indeed an unusual and quirky name! It's a GREAT name for a fictional story or something. :D.
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In Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the younger Thénardier daughter is called Zelma by Cosette, their ward. Zelma's formal name is Azelma.
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No offense, but it sounds like the name of a witch.
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Zelma Davis is a Liberian singer who rose to fame as one of the featured vocalists for C&C Music Factory. She appeared in the video for C&C's #1 Hot 100 hit "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" lip-synching to the recorded vocals of Martha Wash.
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