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Of her first day in the new school, she later recalled: "All the doors were open, all the children's heads were peepin' out, all the teachers' heads were above, and they were watching one little black girl come into that school. In her lifetime, Tucker has received over honors, is publisher of Vital Issues: The Journal of African American Speeches, and has served as a vice-president of the Philadelphia Tribune since And I realized that's where we needed to go to make a difference.

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Tuck, Jessica —. Cite this article Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography. As Chief of Elections of Pennsylvania, she was a leader in instituting a voter registration by mail and reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 years of age. From the s onward, she engaged in a campaign against gangsta rap music. Her strong will and organizing skills brought her to the attention of those in power.

Tucker's tireless campaigning led her to criticize American television. May 17, Retrieved November 5, Tucker, Michael Los Angeles Times , July 5, , p. After leaving state government, Tucker worked in real estate, sold insurance, and even held a position with the Philadelphia Tribune , but she never lost her commitment to political activism.

She sees violent and misogynistic rap lyrics as a significant contribution to black-on-black violence and single-parent families, the first step, she claims, toward racial genocide. Hyde Park Citizen , July 20, , p. In the decades since then she has become a respected-and indeed even feared-personality. Although she had been publicly chastised by Governor Shapp for accepting thousands of dollars in unreported honoraria, Tucker was reappointed to a second term as commonwealth secretary in Further details may exist on the talk page.

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Retrieved March 8, William Tucker. Cepeda, Raquel, ed. September 22, Delores Tucker". It was very tense. United States. Tucker, C. People shouted, 'Drown, you rats, drown'; you could feel their hate, they were spitting. She took part in the major civil-rights actions of the day, participated in the White House Conference on Civil Rights with Dr.

Tucker, John C. Today she is on a crusade to alter the violent, anti-female message in gangsta rap, a message she sees as undermining and even contributing to the early deaths of American youth — especially black youth. Tucker had been active in the civil-rights movement in and around her native Philadelphia as well as elsewhere in the North, but as the battle for equality heated up in the South in the late s and early s, she longed to join the "real struggle.