Samuel Wilbert Tucker

Lawyer, Deceased Person

1913 – 1990

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Who was Samuel Wilbert Tucker?

Samuel Wilbert Tucker was an American lawyer and a cooperating attorney with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. As a founding partner in the Richmond, Virginia firm of Hill, Tucker and Marsh, he is best remembered for one of his several civil rights cases before the Supreme Court of the United States: Green v. County School Board of New Kent County which, according to The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights In America, "did more to advance school integration than any other Supreme Court decision since Brown." He is also remembered for organizing a 1939 sit-in at the then-segregated Alexandria, Virginia public library.

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Born
Jun 18, 1913
Alexandria
Profession
Education
  • Howard University
Died
Oct 19, 1990
Richmond
Resting place
Arlington National Cemetery

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on July 23, 2013

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