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The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Herbert Tucker, Jr
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Herbert Tucker, Jr.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 53 min., 1 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Civic leader and judge Herbert E. Tucker, Jr. was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 30, 1915. Tucker's father was a redcap; his mother died when he was eleven. Graduating from the Boston Latin School, Tucker attended Northeastern School of Law, earning his J.D. degree. After working for the Internal Revenue Service, Tucker went into private practice in 1952. Named assistant attorney general of Massachusetts in 1959, Senator John F. Kennedy appointed Tucker to the civil rights section of his 1960 presidential campaign. Continuing to serve in state government, Tucker was named presiding justice of the Municipal Court of Dorchester in 1974. He retired from public service in 1985 as the presiding justice of the Edgartown District Court. Serving as president of the Boston NAACP, he lectured at numerous area universities and served as chairman of the executive committee of Simmons College since 1969. He received numerous awards. He passed away on March 1, 2007.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Herbert Tucker, Jr.
The Honorable Herbert Tucker, Jr.
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performers
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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