Samuel W. Tucker Civil Rights Attorney /Activist

Samuel W. Tucker

Civil Rights Attorney /Activist

Samuel W. Tucker, born June 18, 1913, was an outstanding civil rights attorney and legal academic who began his civil rights involvement at the age of 14, when he and his brother refused to give up their seat on a street car in Alexandria to a white person. Tucker later organized a “sit-down strike” protest in 1939 at the Alexandria Public Library, which did not issue library cards to black residents. In 2000, Alexandria’s Samuel W. Tucker Elementary School was dedicated in his honor.

 

 

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