{"id":18399,"date":"2022-02-25T09:52:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T14:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=18399"},"modified":"2022-02-25T15:08:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:08:57","slug":"black-history-month-featured-profile-and-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=18399","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month Featured Profile and Video"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Featured Profile: Samuel W. Tucker<\/h2>\n

\"\"Samuel Wilbert Tucker was born on June 18, 1913, in Alexandria, Va. He attended Parker-Gray School and graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington, D.C. Attending segregated schools left a deep impression on Tucker that would later fuel his desire to fight for civil rights.<\/p>\n

Tucker graduated from Howard University in 1933 and began practicing law in Alexandria, Va. His civil rights career began as he organized a 1939 sit-in at a then-segregated public library. After his friends were arrested for sitting in the library, Tucker served as their lawyer.<\/p>\n

In court, police told the judge that the Black men were not supposed to be in a library for whites. But Tucker argued Alexandria citizens must not go to jail for using the library because all Black citizens do not have a library to use and the library should be for everyone. The charges were dropped. A year later, a library was built in Alexandria for Black residents. Today, everyone may use the Alexandria Library.<\/p>\n

Tucker later fought for the desegregation of Virginia’s public schools in the 1950s and 1960s.<\/p>\n

He argued and won several civil rights cases before the U. S. Supreme Court, including Green v. County School Board of New Kent County<\/em>. According to The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights In America, this case \u201cdid more to advance school integration than any other Supreme Court decision since Brown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Samuel Wilbert Tucker died Oct. 19, 1990. In 2000, Samuel W. Tucker Elementary School opened and was named after the civil rights icon.<\/p>\n

Video: Harriet Jacobs, Champion of Alexandria Public Education<\/h2>\n