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| Samuel Tucker |
In 1939, he led a “sit-down strike”protest at the Alexandria Public Library, which did not issue library cards to black residents, and later defended those participants in the resulting legal actions. During WWII, Tucker served in the 366th Infantry. Tucker was the principal lawyer for the NAACP in post-Brown school desegregation cases and was the organization’s 1996 “Lawyer of the Year.” In 2000, Alexandria’s Samuel W. Tucker Elementary was dedicated in his honor.
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