Draft:Charles Ewbank Tucker
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Charles Ewbank Tucker (January 12, 1898 – December 25, 1975) was a lawyer, church leader, and civil rights leader in the United States.[1]
Whilst acting as defence in 1931 for a murder suspect in Elizabethtown, Kentucky he drew attention for asking for the jury to include blacks.[2] After leaving the court he was set upon, badly beaten and looked likely to by lynched before the state police intervened.[2]
Tucker died December 25, 1975 aged 83.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "The Last Public Execution in America, By Perry T. Ryan". www.oocities.org.
- ^ a b c "Obituary for C. Ewbank Tucker". The Pittsburgh Courier. January 17, 1976. p. 15. Retrieved November 12, 2023.