Richmond Lawyer Cited for Civil Rights Work

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S.W. Tucker of Richmond, Va. Cited by LDF for Civil Rights Work

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Press Releases, Volume 2. Richmond Lawyer Cited for Civil Rights Work, 1965. 1a7dd210-b692-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/d9a53cb8-7cca-4440-9ec7-a11796c44eb0/richmond-lawyer-cited-for-civil-rights-work. Accessed December 04, 2025.

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    10 Columbus Circle 
New York, N.Y. 10019 
JUdson 6-8397 

NAACP 

Legal Defense and Educational Fund 
PRESS RELEASE 

a reine FOR RELEASE 
Dr. Allan Knight Chalmers Friday 

Director-Counsal July g, 1965 
Jack Greenberg 

RICHMOND LAWYER CITED 
FOR CIVIL RIGHTS WORK 

RICHMOND---Prominent Richmond lawyer S, W, Tucker has been cited 

by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. for his 

legal efforts on behalf of the civil rights movement, Jack 

Greenberg, Fund director-counsel, announced today. 

A similar award went to Atty, Donald L, Hollowell of Atlanta, 

Ga. Both lawyers are part of a force of 120 cooperating attorneys 

working for the Fund throughout the South, 

Tucker, 52, was admitted to the bar in 1934 although he never 

attended law school, He has been associated with the Lega! Defense 

{Fund about six years, but has served on the legal staff of the 

Virginia State Conference of the NAACP since 1946, and as chairman 

of the staff since 1962, Last year, he was elected to the NAACP'ts 

national Board of Directors. 

The Legal Defense Fund is an independent, non-profit 

corporation established in 1939. 

ELA long-time champion of school integration, Tucker has helped 

bring about several landmark court decisions in the fight to 

desegregate Virginia schools, 

Through legal channels he has also fought dual standards 

applied in Virginia to discriminate in voter registration and 

selection of jurors. In one of his early cases he took up the 

fight against the dual standard applied in meting out death penalties 

to Negroes convicted of raping white women, 

One of Tucker's present battles involves discriminatory 

practices in the apportionment of the Virginia legislature. 

Tucker, who presently has nearly 150 civil rights cases 

pending in state and federal courts, has also played an active role 

in the defense. Sfghereons arrested for participating in civil 

rights demonstrations in Lynchburg, Danville, Richmond, Prince 

Edward County, Chaplottesville,.and Alexandria, Va. 

Jesse DeVore, Jr., Director of Public I ion—Night Number 212 Riverside 9-8487 So

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