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ERIC Number: EJ612427
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-1077-3711
Samuel Wilbert Tucker: The Unsung Hero of the School Desegregation Movement.
Ackerman, S. J.
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, n28 p98-103 Sum 2000
Presents the life and career story of Samuel Wilbert Tucker, a lawyer who was an unsung leader in the civil rights struggle. Tucker became Virginia's NAACP lead lawyer in the ongoing legal challenge to segregation, systematically attacking school segregation. He devoted his life to ensuring a good education for the next generation of black students. (SM)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Higher Education, Racial Discrimination, School Desegregation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: African Americans