The Entertainment Guide

Home Events Nancy Silcox on Samuel Wilbert Tucker and the 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In
library Round bookshelf in public library

Northfield Public Library

Location

Northfield Public Library
210 Washington St
Website
https://guides.mynpl.org/home

Date

Jun 11 2022
Expired!

Time

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Nancy Silcox on Samuel Wilbert Tucker and the 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In

Nancy Silcox will offer a presentation about Samuel W. Tucker, a twenty-six-year-old African American lawyer who organized a sit-in in 1939 to protest the whites-only policy in the public library in Alexandria, Virginia.