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Season 2, Episode 23 Number (#36) in series (133 episodes) | ||||
![]() Cindy Bradford of the Zeta Gammas Sorority Club, is sent to recruit Thelma, who was granted a scholarship to attend the prestigious Alliston School for Girls in Michigan in "Thelma's Scholarship" in Season 2 | ||||
Tape date | February 27, 1975 | |||
Air date: | March 11, 1975 | |||
Network/Country: | CBS-TV | |||
Written by: | Dick Bensfield & Perry Grant | |||
Directed by: | Herbert Kenwith | |||
Production code: | 223 | |||
Thelma's Scholarship | ||||
Cast Information | ||||
Starring: | Esther Rolle John Amos Jimmie Walker Ja'net Dubois Bern Nadette Stanis Ralph Carter | |||
Guest starring: | Randi Kallan | |||
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Thelma's Scholarship is the twenty-third episode of Season 2 and the thirty-sixth series episode overall. The episode, which was written by Dick Bensfield and Perry Grant, and directed by Herbert Kenwith, first aired on CBS-TV on March 11, 1975.

Cindy tries to impress Thelma about the Theta Gammas, her sorority at the Alliston Girls' School in "Thelma's Scholarship".
Synopsis[]
Thelma has an opportunity to attend a prestigious boarding school. But when a snooty sorority girl is too insistent that Thelma join, she realizes they only want her because she's black.
Storyline[]
Thelma has a chance of winning a scholarship to an exclusive boarding school in Michigan. However, even before she knows she has won, a snobby girl from a sorority comes around wanting Thelma to join and quickly discovers they just want her because she is black.
Plot summary[]
The family is thrilled beyond words when Thelma (BernNadette Stanis) is offered a scholarship to an exclusive -- and previously all-white -- Michigan boarding school. Still, everyone wonders just why Thelma has been afforded this rare honor. Their wondering comes to an abrupt and disturbing end when one of Thelma's snooty future classmates lets slip that the school needs to fulfill a racial quota -- in a hurry.