Samuel Wilbert Tucker: The Story of a Civil Rights Trailblazer and the 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In

Silcox, Nancy Noyes

ISBN 10: 193428520X / ISBN 13: 9781934285206

Published by History4All Inc., Virginia, 2013

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Inscribed by Silcox on title page. Otherwise, clean, tight and unmarked in paperback.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Samuel Wilbert Tucker: The Story of a Civil Rights Trailblazer and the 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In
• Publisher: History4All Inc., Virginia
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193428520X
• ISBN 13: 9781934285206
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Photographs
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History/Biography

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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.