Samuel Wilbert Tucker: The Story of a Civil Rights Trailblazer and the 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In
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- Synopsis
- Refused a library card to borrow books, Tucker organized the earliest documented civil rights sit-in at a public library on August 21, 1939. This nonviolent act of civil disobedience challenged "Jim Crow" segregation twenty years before the sit-ins of the 1960s. This biography of NAACP lawyer S.W. Tucker, an unsung hero of the Civil Rights Movement, tells how his life and work were dedicated to ending racial discrimination and securing racial justice. He argued cases against over 50 Virginia school boards in the 1950s and 1960s to desegregate public schools. In his 1968 case, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that school boards could no longer delay desegregating public schools and had to show immediate progress.
- Copyright:
- 2014
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 112 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781934285237
- Publisher:
- Nancy Noyes Silcox
- Date of Addition:
- 10/29/24
- Copyrighted By:
- © 2014 by Nancy Noyes Silcox
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
- Submitted By:
- 170
- Proofread By:
- 170
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.