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

Nancy Noyes Silcox

ISBN 10: 1934285234 / ISBN 13: 9781934285237

Published by History4All, Inc., Fairfax, Va., 2014

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111 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. Signed by the author on the title page. Laid into the book is a bookmark promoting the book.

Seller Inventory # 022493

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Samuel Wilbert Tucker: The Story of a Civil Rights Trailblazer and the 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In
• Publisher: History4All, Inc., Fairfax, Va.
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934285234
• ISBN 13: 9781934285237
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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.